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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityDeferred

CVE-2025-41226

VMware ESXi contains a denial-of-service vulnerability that occurs when performing a guest operation.

MEDIUM 6.8EPSS 0.27%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.27%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

CVSS 3.1
6.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.27% probability · 19th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-400
Source
security@vmware.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.