VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the UHCI USB controller. 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 whereas, on Workstation and Fusion, this may lead to code execution on the machine where Workstation or Fusion is installed.

Related CVEs

CVE-2024-22253

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-57rg-p28x-x2f6

Published

March 5, 2024 6:31 PM

Last Modified

May 7, 2025 6:30 PM

CVSS Score

9.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: June 15, 2025 6:24 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.