CVE-2025-41239highCWE-908

CVE-2025-41239: high-severity vulnerability in VMware ESXi

vSockets information-disclosure vulnerability

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21Vexday Risk Score

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

ssvc Trackcvss 7.1epss 3.2%
VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and VMware Tools contains an information disclosure vulnerability due to the usage of an uninitialised memory in vSockets. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from processes communicating with vSockets.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
VMware · Cloud FoundationVMware · ESXiVMware · FusionVMware · Telco Cloud InfrastructureVMware · Telco Cloud PlatformVMware · ToolsVMware · Workstation
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