{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-41238 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2025-41238 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2025-41238 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in VMware Cloud Foundation, published on 15 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-41238 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-41238 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in VMware Cloud Foundation, published on 15 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-41238 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: VMware Cloud Foundation. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-41238/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-41238/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-41238","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-41238/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-41238","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-x6g2-w5w8-r8xx"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution","privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"VMware virtualization software","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A local attacker with admin privileges in a VM can exploit a heap overflow in the PVSCSI controller to execute code on the host, particularly in Workstation and Fusion.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"vmware","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":9.3,"severity":"critical","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-787","name":"Out-of-bounds Write"}],"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"PVSCSI heap-overflow vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-41238","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"vSockets information-disclosure vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-41239"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"VMCI integer-underflow vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-41237"},"products":["Cloud Foundation","ESXi","Fusion","Telco Cloud Infrastructure","Telco Cloud Platform","Workstation"],"published":"2025-07-15","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-02-26","vendors":["VMware"]},"summary":"A local attacker with admin privileges in a VM can exploit a heap overflow in the PVSCSI controller to execute code on the host, particularly in Workstation and Fusion.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-41238/"}