# VMware ESXi and vCenter Server Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

CVE record · `CVE-2025-41228`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2025-41228`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 4.3 Medium
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** vmware
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-79](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html)
- **Tags:** [Cross-site scripting (XSS)](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/xss.md)
- **Technologies:** [VMware vCenter Server](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/vmware-vcenter-server.md) · [VMware Cloud Foundation](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/vmware-cloud-foundation.md) · [VMware Telco Cloud Platform](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/vmware-telco-cloud-platform.md) · [VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/vmware-telco-cloud-infrastructure.md) · [VMware ESXi](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/vmware-esxi.md)
- **Published:** 20 May 2025
- **Updated:** 24 Jun 2025
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: vmware) at 20 May 2025, 14:24 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

- Vendor: VMware. Product: vCenter Server.
  - affected: `8.0 to before 8.0 U3e` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: VMware. Product: Cloud Foundation.
  - affected: `5.x, 4.5.x`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: VMware. Product: Telco Cloud Platform.
  - affected: `5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: VMware. Product: Telco Cloud Infrastructure.
  - affected: `3.x,2.x`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: VMware. Product: ESXi.
  - affected: `8.0 to before ESXi80U3se-24659227` (custom)
  - affected: `7.0 to before ESXi70U3sv-24723868` (custom)
  - Other versions: unaffected

## 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

- 4.3 Medium, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`, from CNA (vmware)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0089, the 59th 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 20 May 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2025-41228](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-41228)
- [NVD: CVE-2025-41228](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-41228)

### References from the CNA

- <https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25717>

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.

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- Everything that needs attention now: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

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