CVE-2025-22247
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V3.1EPSS Score
v2025.03.14There is a 0.0% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
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Description
VMware Tools contains an insecure file handling vulnerability. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges on a guest VM may tamper the local files to trigger insecure file operations within that VM.
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Posted by Solar Designer on May 12Hi, Thank you very much VMware PSIRT for fixing and disclosing this issue. I'm sorry I'm not familiar with open-vm-tools, but I thought we could clarify the below for everyone in here: The commit message says: Skimming th…
Posted by VMware PSIRT on May 12Description ============================================================== CVE-2025-22247: open-vm-tools contains an insecure file handling vulnerability. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Moderate …
Broadcom has released a security advisory addressing a moderate-severity vulnerability in VMware Tools, identified as CVE-2025-22247, which could The post VMware Tools Update Addresses Insecure File Handling Vulnerability appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity.
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ENISA Analysis
VMware Tools contains an insecure file handling vulnerability. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges on a guest VM may tamper the local files to trigger insecure file operations within that VM.
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CVSS Score (3.1)
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Data provided by ENISA EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated: May 14, 2025
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CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
References
Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: May 12, 2025, Modified: May 14, 2025
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