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CVE-2025-22224 — VMware ESXi and Workstation TOCTOU Race Condition Vulnerability
VMware ESXi and Workstation contain a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write. Successful exploitation enables an attacker with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.
Vulnerability details
- Affected productsESXi and Workstation
- KEV remediation due2025-03-25