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Over 37,000 VMware ESXi servers vulnerable to ongoing attacks
2025-03-06 15:39

Over 37,000 internet-exposed VMware ESXi instances are vulnerable to CVE-2025-22224, a critical out-of-bounds write flaw that is actively exploited in the wild. [...]


News URL

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-37-000-vmware-esxi-servers-vulnerable-to-ongoing-attacks/

Related Vulnerability

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2025-03-04 CVE-2025-22224 Unspecified vulnerability in VMWare products
VMware ESXi, and Workstation contain a TOCTOU (Time-of-Check Time-of-Use) vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.
local
low complexity
vmware
8.2

Related vendor

VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
Vmware 148 11 224 258 101 594