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title: "CVE-2025-22224: VMware ESXi vulnerability | CubePath"
description: "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…"
language: en
source: https://cubepath.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-22224
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# CVE-2025-22224: VMware ESXi vulnerability | CubePath

## Description

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.

Official description from the CVE record, published by vmware. Copyright © 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. See [/security/cve/legal](https://cubepath.com/security/cve/legal) for the CVE license. [View the record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22224)

## Key data

### CVSS 3.1 Critical 9.3

Score published by vmware in the CVE record.

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

| Metric                 | Value   | What it means                                                                             |
| ---------------------- | ------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Attack vector          | Local   | The attacker needs local access to the system, or to trick a user into running something. |
| Attack complexity      | Low     | No special conditions are needed. The attack can be repeated at will.                     |
| Privileges required    | None    | No account or privileges are needed.                                                      |
| User interaction       | None    | No action from any user is needed.                                                        |
| Scope                  | Changed | The impact can reach other components beyond the vulnerable one.                          |
| Confidentiality impact | High    | Serious or total effect on the secrecy of data.                                           |
| Integrity impact       | High    | Serious or total effect on the trustworthiness of data.                                   |
| Availability impact    | High    | Serious or total effect on availability.                                                  |

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### EPSS

Exploit Prediction Scoring System by FIRST: an estimate of the probability that exploitation activity will be observed in the next 30 days.

Score

0.01561 (1.6% probability)

Percentile

75.4%

Scores of

Nov 10, 2026

Model

v2026.06.15

### CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

This CVE is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Name in the catalog

VMware ESXi and Workstation TOCTOU Race Condition Vulnerability

Added to the catalog

Mar 4, 2025

Federal due date

Mar 25, 2025

### CISA assessment as of Mar 5, 2025

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC) decision points added by CISA.

Exploitation

Recorded by CISA as active

Automatable

no

Technical impact

total

### Weakness (CWE)

CWE catalog version 5.0.

CWE names: Copyright © 2006-2026, The MITRE Corporation. See [/security/cve/legal](https://cubepath.com/security/cve/legal) for the CWE license.

- [CWE-367](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/367.html) Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

## Affected products

Products listed in the CVE record, as the CNA published them.

- VMware ESXi

  - affected: 8.0 up to before ESXi80U3d-24585383
  - affected: 8.0 up to before ESXi80U2d-24585300
  - affected: 7.0 up to before ESXi70U3s-24585291
- VMware Workstation

  - affected: 17.x up to before 17.6.3
- VMware Cloud Foundation

  - affected: 5.x, 4.5.x
- VMware Telco Cloud Platform

  - affected: 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
- VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure

  - affected: 3.x, 2.x

## References

Links listed in the CVE record. They lead to other sites, which CubePath does not control.

- [support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-…](https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25390)

## Timeline

1. ID reserved Jan 2, 2025
2. Added to CISA KEV Mar 4, 2025
3. Record published Mar 4, 2025
4. Record last updated Feb 26, 2026

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