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CERTFR-2025-AVI-0389

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Une vulnérabilité a été découverte dans les produits VMware. Elle permet à un attaquant de provoquer un contournement de la politique de sécurité.

Solutions

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Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Description
	VMware	VMware Tools	VMware Tools versions 11.x à 12.x antérieures à 12.5.2 sur Windows et Linux

References

Title

Publication Time

CVE-2025-22247 (GCVE-0-2025-22247)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-12 10:46 – Updated: 2025-11-18 20:05

Summary

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.

Severity ?

6.1 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

CWE

CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Assigner

vmware

References

URL

Tags

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-cont…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	VMware Tools	Affected: 12.x.x, 11.x.x , < 12.5.2 (custom)

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

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Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
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Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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