CVE-2025-22224
Act now ● On CISA KEV — actively exploited
Actively exploited — on the CISA KEV list.
CVSS base
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EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
1.6%
74.1th percentile
CISA KEV
Listed
Added 2025-03-04 · patch by 2025-03-25
Weakness / dates
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Published — · modified —
Timeline
- 2025-03-04 — Added to CISA KEV (actively exploited)
- 2025-03-25 — CISA patch-by deadline
Description
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.