# CVE-2025-22222: VMware Aria Operations information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2025-22222)

> A malicious user with non-administrative privileges can retrieve credentials for an outbound plugin if a valid service credential ID is known.

- **Severity:** High 7.7 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **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-9h7m-pf82-g666

## What is CVE-2025-22222?

CVE-2025-22222 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 contains an information disclosure vulnerability. A malicious user with non-administrative privileges may exploit this vulnerability to retrieve credentials for an outbound plugin if a valid service credential ID is known.

Weakness: CWE-497 (Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22222?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Vmware Aria Operations, Vmware Cloud Foundation.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-22222?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-22222 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-22222 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22222 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Vmware Cloud Foundation

- [CVE-2026-22719](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-22719/): Broadcom VMware Aria Operations Command Injection (high 8.1, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-41722](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-41722/): Cross-site scripting in VCF operations (high 8.0)
- [CVE-2026-41723](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-41723/): Cross-site scripting in VCF operations (high 8.0)
- [CVE-2026-41724](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-41724/): Cross-site scripting in VCF operations (high 8.0)
- [CVE-2026-22720](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-22720/): VMware Aria Operations stored cross-site scripting vulnerability (high 8.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-22222 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-22222 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-2025-22222 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-2025-22222/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22222/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22222
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22222
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-22222

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22222/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.