CVE-2025-22224

Severity not reported CISA KEV

Data quality: kev only. This record comes from the CISA KEV catalog only; NVD details have not been synced yet.

VMware ESXi and Workstation TOCTOU Race Condition Vulnerability

Vendor / product: VMware — ESXi and Workstation

VMware ESXi and Workstation contain a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write. Successful exploitation enables an attacker with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.

CVSS

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Not reported by the source

Timeline (UTC)

Published: not reported

Modified: not reported

NVD status: not reported

Last synced 1 day ago

Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:50 UTC

Exploitation

Listed in CISA KEV

Added 2025-03-04 · due 2025-03-25

Known ransomware use: Unknown

Required action (CISA)

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Affected products

Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-367

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.

References

No references reported.

Data sources

CISA KEV — fetched 2026-10-27 06:50 UTC · record ↗

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