cve-2025-22225
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-04 11:56
Modified
2025-03-05 04:55
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
VMware ESXi contains an arbitrary write vulnerability. A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process may trigger an arbitrary kernel write leading to an escape of the sandbox.
References
Impacted products
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