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CVE-2025-22247Insecure file handling vulnerability
- 6.1MediumCVSS base score
- 0.27%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 81% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By vmware
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| vmwareCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.27% · top 81% of all CVEs (15 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Affected products
VMware Tools
- affected 12.x.x, 11.x.x – < 12.5.2
References
References8
- https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25683 (opens in a new tab)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/2 (opens in a new tab)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/13/2 (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00017.html (opens in a new tab)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/24/3 (opens in a new tab)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/25/3 (opens in a new tab)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/25/5 (opens in a new tab)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/26/1 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-14280 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-22247)Record last updated .