SB2025052065 - Multiple vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi

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SB2025052065 - Multiple vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi

Published: May 20, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2025052065
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 3
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 67% Low 33%
  • Low
  • Medium
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  • Critical

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-41226)

The vulnerability allows a remote guest to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote guest can perform a denial of service attack against other guest VMs with VMware Tools running and guest operations enabled.


2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-41227)

The vulnerability allows a malicious guest to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A malicious guest can trigger resource exhaustion of the host process.


3) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-41228)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References