cve-2025-41228
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-20 14:24
Modified
2025-06-24 07:14
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EPSS score ?
Summary
VMware ESXi and vCenter Server Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability
References
Impacted products
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