medium Known exploitedREV. 01

CVE-2025-22226VMware hypervisors — guest admin leaks host process memory

VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion read past a buffer in their shared folder service, so an administrator inside a virtual machine can pull memory out of the process that runs it on the host.

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Apply the Broadcom update for this now; where shared folders are not needed, switch that feature off on the guests that do not use it.

Read the risk

THE VITAL STATS
CVSS score
6.0/ 10
CVSS v3.1
EPSS probability
2%
Likelihood of exploitation
Attack complexity
Low
Conditions needed to exploit
Known exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
CVE published
2025-03-04
Added to KEV
2025-03-04
Exploit published
Not recorded
Confidence
high
Kill chain
collection
MITRE ATT&CK
—
Severity
medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attacker needsAdministrative privileges inside a virtual machine on the host.

Behind the card

3 REFERENCES
Field-level provenanceTRACE THE SOURCES +

Which source supports each field, when it was retrieved, and who extracted it.

FieldsSourceRetrievedExtractorConfidence
cvss, exploitation.attack_complexity, exploitation.exploit_available, references, published_atnvd.nist.gov2026-09-24scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
exploitation.known_exploited, exploitation.kev_addedcisa.gov2026-09-24scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
epssapi.first.org2026-09-24scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
title, summary, severity, remediation, mitre_attack, kill_chain, recommended_action, confidence, tags, exploitation.prerequisitesnvd.nist.gov2026-09-24claude-codehigh

Printing history

THE RECORD
  1. r1Initial base card

First printing. This card has not been reprinted since publication.

crds:cve-2025-22226 · CRDS 0.1 · Issued 2026-09-24