# CVE-2025-22218: VMware Aria Operations for Logs information disclosure vulnerability

> A malicious actor with View Only Admin permissions can read credentials of integrated VMware products in Aria Operations for Logs.

- **Severity:** High 8.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 30 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 13 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-x379-p5q2-7954

## What is CVE-2025-22218?

CVE-2025-22218 is a high-severity vulnerability in Vmware Cloud Foundation, published on 30 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

VMware Aria Operations for Logs contains an information disclosure vulnerability. A malicious actor with View Only Admin permissions may be able to read the credentials of a VMware product integrated with VMware Aria Operations for Logs

Weakness: CWE-209 (Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22218?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Vmware Aria Operations for Logs, Vmware Cloud Foundation.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-22218?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-22218 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-22218 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22218 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Vmware Cloud Foundation

- [CVE-2023-34051](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-34051/): Auth bypass in VMware Aria Operations for Logs (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-20864](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-20864/): Deserialization in VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight) (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-34052](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-34052/): Deserialization in VMware Aria Operations for Logs (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2023-20865](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-20865/): Command injection in VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight) (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2025-22219](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22219/): VMware Aria Operations for Logs stored cross-site scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-22219) (medium 6.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-22218 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-22218 is a high-severity vulnerability in Vmware Cloud Foundation, published on 30 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22218 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Vmware Cloud Foundation. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22218/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22218/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22218
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22218
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-22218

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22218/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.