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CVE-2025-41226: Guest Operations Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 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: 2025-05-20 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-400
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
- VMware Cloud Foundation: 5.x, 4.5.x
- VMware ESXi: from 8.0 before ESXi80U3se-24659227; from 7.0 before ESXi70U3sv-24723868 — fixed in ESXi70U3sv-24723868, ESXi80U3se-24659227
- VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure: 3.x, 2.x
- VMware Telco Cloud Platform: 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: VMware ESXi ESXi70U3sv-24723868, ESXi80U3se-24659227. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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