CVE-2025-41236criticalCWE-787

CVE-2025-41236: critical vulnerability in VMware ESXi

VMXNET3 integer-overflow vulnerability

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28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 9.3epss 2.6%
VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an integer-overflow vulnerability in the VMXNET3 virtual network adapter. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine with VMXNET3 virtual network adapter may exploit this issue to execute code on the host. Non VMXNET3 virtual adapters are not affected by this issue.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
VMware · Cloud FoundationVMware · ESXiVMware · FusionVMware · Telco Cloud InfrastructureVMware · Telco Cloud PlatformVMware · Workstation
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