vulnerability

VMSA-2025-0013: VMXNET3 integer-overflow vulnerability (CVE-2025-41236)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 15, 2025
Added
Jul 23, 2025
Modified
Oct 7, 2025

Description

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an integer-overflow vulnerability in the VMXNET3 virtual network adapter. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine with VMXNET3 virtual network adapter may exploit this issue to execute code on the host. Non VMXNET3 virtual adapters are not affected by this issue.

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