CVE-2025-41226 json
Guest Operations Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
published 2025-05-20 17 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-15831
- cvss
- 6.8
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 15%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
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.
Patch / fix
- VMware ESXi ESXi70U3sv-24723868, ESXi80U3se-24659227
CISA SSVC
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 17 mo ago
Exploit prediction
0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 6.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H |
Affected products
- VMware ESXi
- VMware Cloud Foundation
- VMware Telco Cloud Platform
- VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure
Classification
- Weakness
-
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
References
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-41226
- NVD CVE-2025-41226
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