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CVE record · CVE-2025-22225

VMware ESXi contains an arbitrary write vulnerability.

CVSS 8.2 HighCriticalIn CISA KEV · ransomwareEPSS 0.010 · 63rd percentile

Critical, because:

  • In CISA’s KEV catalogue since 4 Mar 2025: it is known to be exploited.

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
Not given 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
Not given VMware Cloud Foundation
  • affected 5.x, 4.5.x
Other versions: unaffected
Not given VMware Telco Cloud Platform
  • affected 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
Other versions: unaffected
Not given VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure
  • affected 3.x, 2.x
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2025-22225
CNA
vmware
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-123
Tags
Published
4 Mar 2025
Updated
4 Aug 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
8.2 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (vmware)
  • CISA KEV Listed since 4 Mar 2025: known to be exploited. CISA reports use in ransomware campaigns.
  • EPSS 0.010, the 63rd 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.