VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Known Exploited Vulnerabilities CVE-2025-22226
VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds read in HGFS. Successful exploitation allows an attacker with administrative privileges to a virtual machine to leak memory from the vmx process.
This vulnerability, present in VMWare ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion, is the result of an out-of-bounds read in the Host Guest File System (HGFS) and can be exploited by attackers with administrative privileges to disclose sensitive information from the VMX process. An attacker could then move into the hypervisor itself.
This vulnerability, present in VMWare ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion, is the result of an out-of-bounds read in the Host Guest File System (HGFS) and can be exploited by attackers with administrative privileges to disclose sensitive information from the VMX process. An attacker could then move into the hypervisor itself.
