CVE-2025-22230 (GCVE-0-2025-22230)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-25 14:06 – Updated: 2025-03-25 14:19
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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.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a VMware Tools Affected: 12.x.x, 11.x.x , < 12.5.1 (custom)
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