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CVE-2025-41226
Guest Operations Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
Medium6.8EPSS 0.24%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- vmware
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| vmwareCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.24% · top 85% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 8.0 – < ESXi80U3se-24659227
- affected 7.0 – < ESXi70U3sv-24723868
- affected 5.x, 4.5.x
- affected 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
VMware · Telco Cloud Infrastructure
- affected 3.x, 2.x
References (1)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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