02 Records
FEED: ACQUIRING
01 RecordSTATE: PUBLISHED
02 Description
CNA: vmwareVMware ESXi, and Workstation contain a TOCTOU (Time-of-Check Time-of-Use) vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual
03 Exploitation and scoring
SRC: CISA, FIRST, NVD, RED HAT- Exploitation
- Exploited in the wild. Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-03-04. Federal remediation due 2025-03-25.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationactiveCISA reports credible evidence of active exploitation.
- AutomatablenoAt least one step from reconnaissance to exploitation cannot be reliably automated.
- Technical ImpacttotalSuccessful exploitation gives total control of the vulnerable component.
CISA publishes the decision points, not a final SSVC decision. The decision also depends on mission and well-being impact, which is a property of your deployment rather than of the vulnerability.- EPSS probability
- 1.56% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Ranks above 73.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.2 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Analyzed. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
SCHEMA: 5.2
- Published
- 2025-03-04 11:56Z1 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-02-26 19:09Z6 MO AGO
- Reserved
- 2025-01-02
- Assigning CNA
- vmware
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Critical (CVSS 9.3)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-367Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race ConditionBase
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- d338080d9a727d9b789bb099fb8b06481c56cd7384d309267aca626d84b06b25
05 Affected products
PAIRS: 5VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
VMwareESXi8.0 to < ESXi80U3d-24585383, 8.0 to < ESXi80U2d-24585300, 7.0 to < ESXi70U3s-24585291—