{"id":8144,"date":"2025-03-04T16:46:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T16:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/vmware-flaws-exploited-broadcom-issues-patches\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T16:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T16:46:07","slug":"vmware-flaws-exploited-broadcom-issues-patches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/vmware-flaws-exploited-broadcom-issues-patches\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware Flaws Exploited, Broadcom Issues Patches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"p-author\"><i class=\"icon-font icon-calendar\">\ue802<\/i><span class=\"author\">Mar 04, 2025<\/span><i class=\"icon-font icon-user\">\ue804<\/i><span class=\"author\">Ravie Lakshmanan<\/span><\/span><span class=\"p-tags\">Vulnerability \/ Cloud Security<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"articlebody\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhVEZa9kGTYd21JymP6YzdQ0hAlQ5kHtDQ_VcjjATcTi4Pl9VSlm50t_pRjfRj1urS0TlUvtkFeKIjNzgsQHxyq_4I3sgHtLd44YL8rwmseQFMnoOAgWn3ZKI66CZ7B7jOitGZom7RpVZ7qE09VxQz-6QM5OHvKZiiWG0N5jhMPPuXvT-FZ1OuAgdTYzgPE\/s728-rw-e365\/vmware-updates.png\" style=\"clear: left; display: block; float: left;  text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Broadcom has <a href=\"https:\/\/support.broadcom.com\/web\/ecx\/support-content-notification\/-\/external\/content\/SecurityAdvisories\/0\/25390\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a> security updates to address three actively exploited security flaws in VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion products that could lead to code execution and information disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>The list of vulnerabilities is as follows &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CVE-2025-22224<\/strong> (CVSS score: 9.3) &#8211; A Time-of-Check Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write, which a malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine could exploit to execute code as the virtual machine&#8217;s VMX process running on the host<\/li>\n<li><strong>CVE-2025-22225<\/strong> (CVSS score: 8.2) &#8211; An arbitrary write vulnerability that a malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process could exploit to result in a sandbox escape<\/li>\n<li><strong>CVE-2025-22226<\/strong> (CVSS score: 7.1) &#8211; An information disclosure vulnerability due to an out-of-bounds read in HGFS that a malicious actor with administrative privileges to a virtual machine could exploit to leak memory from the vmx process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"dog_two clear\"><center class=\"cf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.uk\/cloud-ai-d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Cybersecurity\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Cybersecurity\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiSCOAe1VcPqudCfDCPhh-g5wBvLsaz_frXFhGVPG_yPr-e-Y_9oqVjzAuW5Ywuspn_7ZQvCAWhx52iofUIHBwjMusM5C199AJ9njiV0nZygnKwYRTbPVixr-TfhyphenhyphenbuqiL9VuAgl2xAY1ky_f9u-wiRWvA_KJiVnnGA9DZE3qBFjpIOrpNAFqvyMMfAcbEh\/s728-e100\/cloud-ai-d.jpg\" width=\"727\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/div>\n<p>The shortcomings impact the below versions &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VMware ESXi 8.0 &#8211; Fixed in ESXi80U3d-24585383, ESXi80U2d-24585300<\/li>\n<li>VMware ESXi 7.0 &#8211; Fixed in ESXi70U3s-24585291<\/li>\n<li>VMware Workstation 17.x &#8211; Fixed in 17.6.3<\/li>\n<li>VMware Fusion 13.x &#8211; Fixed in 13.6.3<\/li>\n<li>VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x &#8211; Async patch to ESXi80U3d-24585383<\/li>\n<li>VMware Cloud Foundation 4.x &#8211; Async patch to ESXi70U3s-24585291<\/li>\n<li>VMware Telco Cloud Platform 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x &#8211; Fixed in ESXi 7.0U3s, ESXi 8.0U2d, and ESXi 8.0U3d<\/li>\n<li>VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure 3.x, 2.x &#8211; Fixed in ESXi 7.0U3s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a separate FAQ, Broadcom <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/vmware\/vcf-security-and-compliance-guidelines\/tree\/main\/security-advisories\/vmsa-2025-0004\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">acknowledged<\/a> that it has &#8220;information to suggest that exploitation of these issues has occurred &#8216;in the wild,&#8217; but it did not elaborate on the nature of the attacks or the identity of the threat actors that have weaponized them.<\/p>\n<p>The virtualization services provider credited the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center for discovering and reporting the bugs. 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