vSockets information-disclosure vulnerability_CVE-2025-41239

7.1 / 10

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Description

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-41239

Source vmware

Published Jul 15, 2025 at 18:35

Modified Jul 15, 2025 at 18:51

Affected Product

Vendor VMware

Product ESXi

Version 8.0

Affected Versions VMware ESXi 8.0
VMware ESXi 8.0
VMware ESXi 7.0
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x, 4.5.x
VMware Workstation 17.x
VMware Fusion 13.x
VMware Telco Cloud Platform 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure 3.x, 2.x
VMware Tools 13.x.x
VMware Tools 12.x.x, 11.x.x,

CWE Classification

CWE-908

References

support.broadcom.com /web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/35877

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