{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22230 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2025-22230 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"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."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-22230 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: 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.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22230 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: VMware Tools. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22230/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22230/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-22230","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22230/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-22230","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-h5xv-5cpx-pf45"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"VMware Tools","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges in a guest VM can bypass authentication to perform high-privilege operations within that VM.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"auth_bypass"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"vmware","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-288","name":"Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel"}],"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Authentication bypass vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-22230","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"auth_bypass","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"VMware Aria Operations updates address a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-22231)","id":"CVE-2025-22231"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"CVE-2025-22228: Spring Security BCryptPasswordEncoder does not enforce maximum password length","id":"CVE-2025-22228"},"products":["VMware Tools"],"published":"2025-03-25","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-03-25","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges in a guest VM can bypass authentication to perform high-privilege operations within that VM.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22230/"}