CVE-2025-22230 — Authentication bypass vulnerability

CVE-2025-22230

Authentication bypass vulnerability PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
n/a / VMware Tools	affected 12.x.x, 11.x.x before 12.5.1

CWE

CWE-288

References

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25518

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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