An untrusted pointer dereference in the ionic cloud driver for VMWare ESXi could allow an attacker with an unprivileged VM to read kernel memory or co-located guest VM memory, potentially resulting in loss of confidentiality or availability.
PUBLISHED5.2CWE-822
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
JSON source
https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2025-62627Click to expand
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