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Status published
Medium
CVE-2025-41226
Guest Operations Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
ESXi, Cloud Foundation, Telco Cloud Platform, Telco Cloud Infrastructure
Vulnerable Versions:
8.0, 7.0, 5.x, 4.5.x, 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x, 3.x, 2.x
Timeline
Official Publish:
May 20th, 2025
Last Modified:
June 24th, 2025
Added to House:
July 22nd, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H