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CVE record · CVE-2025-41238

PVSCSI heap-overflow vulnerability

CVSS 9.3 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0046 · 40th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.3: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: vmware) at 15 Jul 2025, 18:34 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 ESXi80U3f-24784735 custom
  • affected 8.0 to before ESXi80U2e-24789317 custom
  • affected 7.0 to before ESXi70U3w-24784741 custom
Other versions: unaffected
VMware Cloud Foundation
  • affected 5.x, 4.5.x
Other versions: unaffected
VMware Workstation
  • affected 17.x to before 17.6.4 custom
Other versions: unaffected
VMware Fusion
  • affected 13.x to before 13.6.4 custom
Other versions: unaffected
VMware Telco Cloud Platform
  • affected 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x custom
Other versions: unaffected
VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure
  • affected 3.x, 2.x
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2025-41238
CNA
vmware
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-787
Tags
Published
15 Jul 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 Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0046, the 40th 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 15 Jul 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.