CVE-2025-41238

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VMware ESXi (affected versions not specified) VMware Workstation (affected versions not specified) VMware Fusion (affected versions not specified)

Description VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a heap-overflow vulnerability in the PVSCSI (Paravirtualized SCSI) controller that leads to an out-of-bounds write. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host. On ESXi, exploitation is contained within the VMX sandbox and exploitable only with unsupported configurations. On Workstation and Fusion, this may lead to code execution on the machine where Workstation or Fusion is installed.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.