2026-05-13 2:58CVE-2025-62623AMD
PUBLISHED5.2CWE-119

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.

Problem type

Affected products

AMD

ESXi 8.x and ESXi 9.x hosts using AMD-Pensando DPU products

ESXi 8.0U3i, included in VCF 5.2.3.0 or 9.0.2 releases - UNAFFECTED

References

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https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2025-62623
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