VMware ESXi vulnerabilities
3 known CVE vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi, translated and rated.
- CVE-2025-22225HighActively exploited
VMware ESXi contains an arbitrary write vulnerability. A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process may trigger an arbitrary kernel write leading to an escape of the sandbox.
- CVE-2024-37085MediumActively exploited
VMware ESXi contains an authentication bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor with sufficient Active Directory (AD) permissions can gain full access to an ESXi host that was configured to use AD for user management by re-creating the configured AD group ('ESXi Admins' by default) after it was deleted from AD.
- CVE-2020-3992CriticalActively exploited
OpenSLP as used in VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.1-0.0.16850804, 6.7 before ESXi670-202010401-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202010401-SG) has a use-after-free issue. A malicious actor residing in the management network who has access to port 427 on an ESXi machine may be able to trigger a use-after-free in the OpenSLP service resulting in remote code execution.