CVE-2025-22224 added to CISA KEV: VMware ESXi and Workstation
Status: ✅ Confirmed exploited in the wild
Date added: 2025-03-04
Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Due date: 2025-03-25
Why this matters
VMware ESXi and Workstation contain a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write. Successful exploitation enables an attacker with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.
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