CVE-2025-22230

Authentication bypass vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Mar 25, 2025
Updated
Mar 25, 2025
Reserved
Jan 2, 2025

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hvmware

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
VMware Toolsn/a
  • 12.x.x, 11.x.x to before 12.5.1Affected

References

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