PT-2025-22147 · Vmware · Vcenter Server+2

Published 2025-05-20 · Updated 2025-07-19 · CVE-2025-41226

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VMware ESXi (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is 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.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

BDU:2025-10225

CVE-2025-41226

Affected Products

Vmware Esxi

Vmware Tools

Vcenter Server

References · 10

• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2025-10225 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-41226 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1924841172737880458 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/BlackpointUS/status/1924884547075756542 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/andersonc0d3/status/1924839603845918870 · Twitter Post
• https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25717 · Note
• https://twitter.com/fletch_ai/status/1925159710929596433 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1924858894737707117 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/ripjyr/status/1946468851279114711 · Twitter Post
• https://reddit.com/r/vmware/comments/1kr4vmi/vmsa20250010_vmware_esxi_vcenter_server · Reddit Post