MEDIUM
Guest Operations Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
Published May 20, 2025
6.8
MEDIUMCVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.24%
Description
VMware ESXi contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that occurs when performing a guest operation. A malicious actor with guest operation privileges on a VM, who is already authenticated through vCenter Server or ESXi may trigger this issue to create a denial-of-service condition of guest VMs with VMware Tools running and guest operations enabled.
Affected products
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- Version 5.x, 4.5.xStatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version
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- Version 7.0StatusaffectedConstraints<ESXi70U3sv-24723868
- Version 8.0StatusaffectedConstraints<ESXi80U3se-24659227
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- Version 3.x, 2.xStatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version
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- Version 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.xStatusaffectedConstraints-
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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
| Vendor | Product | Default status | Versions | |||||||||
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| VMware | Cloud Foundation | unaffected |
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| VMware | ESXi | unaffected |
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| VMware | Telco Cloud Infrastructure | unaffected |
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| VMware | Telco Cloud Platform | unaffected |
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No data.
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Weaknesses (1)
References (2)
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner vmware
Published May 20, 2025
Updated Jun 24, 2025
Reserved Apr 16, 2025
Link CVE-2025-41226
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated May 20, 2025
ENISA EUVD
EUVD-2025-15831 Assigner vmware
Published May 20, 2025
Updated Jun 24, 2025
Exploited since n/a
Link EUVD-2025-15831