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VMware VMware Tools: CVE-2025-22247: VMware Tools Insecure File Handling Vulnerability

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:C/A:N)

Published

May 12, 2025

Added

Jun 3, 2025

Modified

May 18, 2026

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. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Moderate severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 6.1.

Solution

vmware-tools-upgrade-latest

References

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25683
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2025-14280
CVE-2025-22247
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2025-22247
CWE-59
EUVD-EUVD-2025-14280

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