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)
CWE
- CWE-908 - Use of Uninitialized Resource
Assigner
References
Impacted products
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| VMware | ESXi |
Affected:
8.0 , < ESXi80U3f-24784735
(custom)
Affected: 8.0 , < ESXi80U2e-24789317 (custom) Affected: 7.0 , < ESXi70U3w-24784741 (custom) |
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Nomenclature
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