Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-22273

High

Published: 21 May 2024

Published
21 May 2024
Modified
26 March 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0030 54.0th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-22273 is a high-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Vmware Esxi. Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 46.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The storage controllers on VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion have out-of-bounds read/write vulnerability. A malicious actor with access to a virtual machine with storage controllers enabled may exploit this issue to create a denial of service condition or execute code…

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on the hypervisor from a virtual machine in conjunction with other issues.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

vmware
cloud foundation
4.0 — 5.1.1
vmware
workstation
17.0.0 — 17.5.1
vmware
esxi
7.0, 8.0
vmware
fusion
13.0.0 — 13.5.1

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

References