2026-05-13 2:59CVE-2025-62627AMD
PUBLISHED5.2CWE-822

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.

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-2025-62627
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