VMware ESXi and Workstation
YES - ON THE CISA KEV LIST
CVE-2025-22224
VMware ESXi and Workstation TOCTOU Race Condition Vulnerability
overdue since 2025-03-25
VMware: 26 entries (1.5% of all KEV entries are from this vendor); 0 added in 2026.
BOD 26-04 note: this is the date printed in the CISA catalog. A federal agency's actual deadline is set by its SSVC tier - Act (3 days), Attend (14 days), Track (60 days), or the next scheduled upgrade - counted from the KEV listing date or the date the vulnerability is identified in its environment, whichever comes first. Use the tier helper on each CVE page for your own window.
Your BOD 26-04 window (SSVC tier helper)
Your remediation window ends:
Description
VMware ESXi and Workstation contain a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write. Successful exploitation enables an attacker with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.
Required action (CISA)
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Notes
https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25390 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22224
References
Other KEV entries for this vendor: VMware
- CVE-2025-22226 - ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion (2025-03-04)
- CVE-2025-22225 - ESXi (2025-03-04)
- CVE-2024-38813 - vCenter Server (2024-11-20)
- CVE-2024-38812 - vCenter Server (2024-11-20)
- CVE-2024-37085 - ESXi (2024-07-30)
- CVE-2022-22948 - vCenter Server (2024-07-17)
- CVE-2023-34048 - vCenter Server (2024-01-22)
- CVE-2023-20867 - Tools (2023-06-23)
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