Threats affecting pkg:rpm/vmware/esxi

A heap-based buffer overflow in the ionic cloud driver for VMware ESXi could allow an attacker to achieve privilege escalation, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution.

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.

CVE-2025-41236 is a critical integer-overflow vulnerability in the VMXNET3 virtual network adapter used by VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion. A local attacker with administrative privileges on a virtual machine using the VMXNET3 adapter could exploit this flaw to execute code on the host system. This vulnerability does not affect other virtual network adapters. The CVSS score is 9.3, indicating a high severity with potential for full host compromise. No official patch or remediation information is currently provided by VMware. There are no known exploits in the wild at this time.

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.