CVE-2025-41226

MediumCVSS 6.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-400

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
VMware	ESXi	>= 8.0, < ESXi80U3se-24659227; >= 7.0, < ESXi70U3sv-24723868
VMware	Cloud Foundation	5.x, 4.5.x
VMware	Telco Cloud Platform	5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
VMware	Telco Cloud Infrastructure	3.x, 2.x

References

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25717

Timeline

Published: May 20, 2025
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Deferred

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