vulnerability

VMSA-2025-0013: vSockets information-disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2025-41239)

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, Fusion, and VMware Tools contains an information disclosure vulnerability due to the usage of an uninitialised memory in vSockets. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from processes communicating with vSockets.

Solutions

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