CVE-2025-41239 (GCVE-0-2025-41239)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-15 18:35 – Updated: 2025-07-15 18:51
VLAI?
Title
vSockets information-disclosure vulnerability
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-908 - Use of Uninitialized Resource
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
VMware ESXi Affected: 8.0 , < ESXi80U3f-24784735 (custom)
Affected: 8.0 , < ESXi80U2e-24789317 (custom)
Affected: 7.0 , < ESXi70U3w-24784741 (custom)
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VMware Cloud Foundation Affected: 5.x, 4.5.x
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VMware Workstation Affected: 17.x , < 17.6.4 (custom)
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VMware Fusion Affected: 13.x , < 13.6.4 (custom)
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VMware Telco Cloud Platform Affected: 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
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VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure Affected: 3.x, 2.x
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VMware Tools Affected: 13.x.x , < 13.0.1.0 (custom)
Affected: 12.x.x, 11.x.x, , < 12.5.3 (custom)
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Date Public ?
2025-07-15 03:30
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