Heap Overflow in VMware ESXi Ionic Cloud Driver Enables Priv Escalation
CVE-2025-62624 Published on May 13, 2026

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.

NVD

Weakness Type

Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().


Affected Versions

ESXi 8.x and ESXi 9.x hosts using AMD-Pensando DPU products Version ESXi 8.0U3i, included in VCF 5.2.3.0 or 9.0.2 releases is unaffected by CVE-2025-62624

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.01%
Percentile
3.15%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.