CVE-2025-22224

KEVCRITICAL 9.3EPSS 1.6%

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.

CVSS v3.1: 8.2 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v3.1: 9.3 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 1.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 73th percentile
CISA KEV: added 2025-03-04
Published: 2025-03-04
Updated: 2026-02-26

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

winmin/awesome-vm-escape

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