CVE-2025-22230 Authentication bypass vulnerability
A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges in a guest VM can bypass authentication to perform high-privilege operations within that VM.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-22230?
CVE-2025-22230 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in VMware Tools, published on 25 Mar 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-288
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22230?
How do I fix CVE-2025-22230?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-22230 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.
Is CVE-2025-22230 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22230 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-h5xv-5cpx-pf45.