critical9.3Known exploited
CVE-2025-22224
VMware ESXi and Workstation TOCTOU Race Condition Vulnerability
Exploited in the wild
This vulnerability is on a Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, added 2025-03-04. Federal due date: 2025-03-25.
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Impact
VMware ESXi, and Workstation contain a TOCTOU (Time-of-Check Time-of-Use) vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Vmware | Esxi | Versions 7.0, 8.0 |
| Vmware | Cloud Foundation | All versions |
| Vmware | Telco Cloud Infrastructure | Versions 2.2, 2.5, 2.7, 3.0 |
| Vmware | Telco Cloud Platform | Versions 2.0, 2.5, 2.7, 3.0, 4.0, 4.0.1 |
| Vmware | Workstation | from 17.0 before 17.6.3 |