CVE-2025-22230
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-25 14:06
Modified
2025-03-25 14:19
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
VMware Tools for Windows contains an authentication bypass vulnerability due to improper access control. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges on a guest VM may gain ability to perform certain high privilege operations within that VM.
References
security@vmware.comhttps://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25518
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a VMware Tools Version: 12.x.x, 11.x.x   < 12.5.1
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