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High 8.8Published May 12, 2026
CVE-2025-62623A 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.
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It affects AMD ESXi 8.x and ESXi 9.x hosts using AMD-Pensando DPU products. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.
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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.
- CVSS
- 8.8 HIGH (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- AMD
- NVD analysis
- Awaiting Analysis
- Record last updated
- May 14, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
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