CVE-2024-22273

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-05-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The storage controllers on VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion have out-of-bounds read/write vulnerability. A malicious actor with access to a virtual machine with storage controllers enabled may exploit this issue to create a denial of service condition or execute code on the hypervisor from a virtual machine in conjunction with other issues.

Affected products

VMware Cloud Foundation: from 4.0 before 5.1.1 — fixed in 5.1.1
VMware ESXi: 7.0-beta, 7.0-update_1, 7.0-update_1a, 7.0-update_1b, 7.0-update_1c, 7.0-update_1d (+27); 7.0, 8.0
VMware Fusion: from 13.0.0 before 13.5.1 — fixed in 13.5.1
VMware Workstation: from 17.0.0 before 17.5.1 — fixed in 17.5.1
VMware Cloud Foundation: 5.x, 4.x
VMware ESXi: 0, 7.0
VMware Fusion: 13.x
VMware Workstation: 17.x
VMware Cloud Foundation (ESXi): from 5.x before 5.1.1; 4.x — fixed in 5.1.1
VMware ESXi: from 8.0 before ESXi80U2sb-23305545; from 7.0 before ESXi70U3sq-23794019 — fixed in ESXi80U2sb-23305545, ESXi70U3sq-23794019
VMware Fusion: from 13.x before 13.5.1 — fixed in 13.5.1
VMware Workstation: from 17.x before 17.5.1 — fixed in 17.5.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1.1; VMware Fusion 13.5.1; VMware Workstation 17.5.1; VMware Cloud Foundation (ESXi) 5.1.1; VMware ESXi ESXi80U2sb-23305545, ESXi70U3sq-23794019; VMware Fusion 13.5.1; VMware Workstation 17.5.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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