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CVE record · CVE-2025-22224

Time-of-check time-of-use race condition in VMware ESXi and others

CVSS 9.3 CriticalCriticalIn CISA KEVEPSS 0.016 · 75th percentile

Critical, because:

  • In CISA’s KEV catalogue since 4 Mar 2025: it is known to be exploited.
  • CVSS score 9.3: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: vmware) at 4 Mar 2025, 11:56 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
VMware ESXi
  • affected 8.0 to before ESXi80U3d-24585383 custom
  • affected 8.0 to before ESXi80U2d-24585300 custom
  • affected 7.0 to before ESXi70U3s-24585291 custom
Other versions: unaffected
VMware Workstation
  • affected 17.x to before 17.6.3 custom
Other versions: unaffected
VMware VMware Cloud Foundation
  • affected 5.x, 4.5.x
Other versions: unaffected
VMware Telco Cloud Platform
  • affected 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
Other versions: unaffected
VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure
  • affected 3.x, 2.x
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2025-22224
CNA
vmware
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-367
Tags
Published
4 Mar 2025
Updated
26 Feb 2026

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.3 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (vmware)
  • CISA KEV Listed since 4 Mar 2025: known to be exploited.
  • EPSS 0.016, the 75th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 4 Mar 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.