CVE-2025-41226CWE-400

Guest Operations Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

Medium · published May 20, 2025

CVSS v3.1
6.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00242 · 14.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2025-05-20T14:24Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 MAY 14:24Z
    Guest Operations Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
    cvelistv5