Security Advisory

CVE-2025-41238

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-07-15 18:34:48
Last updated 2026-02-26 17:50:39
Assigner vmware
State PUBLISHED

Description

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a heap-overflow vulnerability in the PVSCSI (Paravirtualized SCSI) controller 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 machines VMX process running on the host. On ESXi, the exploitation is contained within the VMX sandbox and exploitable only with configurations that are unsupported. On Workstation and Fusion, this may lead to code execution on the machine where Workstation or Fusion is installed.