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Vulnerability · CVE-2025-22247

VMware Tools contains an insecure file handling vulnerability.

Published May 12, 2025 · catalog updated Nov 18, 2025 · VMware Tools

Check this week

CVE-2025-22247 is not in CISA KEV. FIRST estimates a 27.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Check whether you run VMware Tools.

Gaps on this record

  • No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
Severity
Medium6.1
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
27.00%
Remediation
Version ranges on file
Affected products
vendor n/a VMware Tools 12.x.x, 11.x.x <12.5.2

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.

Are you affected?

Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.

The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.

  • vendor n/a VMware Tools 12.x.x, 11.x.x <12.5.212.x.x, 11.x.x <12.5.2

How to fix CVE-2025-22247

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

CVE-2025-22247 is not in CISA KEV. FIRST estimates a 27.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Check whether you run VMware Tools.

Which versions are affected?

Compare what you have installed with n/a VMware Tools 12.x.x, 11.x.x <12.5.2 12.x.x, 11.x.x <12.5.2. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 27.00%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. May 12, 2025 · EUVD

    Detected

    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.

  2. Nov 18, 2025 · EUVD

    Updated

    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.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-22247

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-14280

    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.

    euvd.enisa.europa.eu

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 17, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.