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Description

A heap-based buffer overflow in the ionic cloud driver for VMware ESXi could allow an attacker to achieve privilege escalation, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-10-16 | Published 2026-05-13 | Updated 2026-05-14 | Assigner AMD




HIGH: 8.8CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

Problem types

CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Product status

Default status
affected

ESXi 8.0U3i, included in VCF 5.2.3.0 or 9.0.2 releases
unaffected

Credits

Reported through AMD Bug Bounty Program

References

www.amd.com/...es/product-security/bulletin/AMD-SB-2001.html

cve.org (CVE-2025-62623)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-62623)

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