CVE-2025-22226: VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2025-03-04. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an information disclosure vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds read in HGFS. A malicious actor with administrative privileges to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from the vmx process.

Affected products

• VMware Cloud Foundation: affected versions not specified
• VMware ESXi: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• VMware Fusion: from 13.0.0, before 13.6.3 (fixed in 13.6.3)
• VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure: version 2.2 only; version 2.5 only; version 2.7 only; version 3.0 only
• VMware Telco Cloud Platform: version 2.0 only; version 2.5 only; version 2.7 only; version 3.0 only; version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; …
• VMware Workstation: from 17.0, before 17.6.3 (fixed in 17.6.3)

Published 2025-03-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.