Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-22247

Medium

Published: 12 May 2025

Published
12 May 2025
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0033 56.0th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-22247 is a medium-severity Link Following (CWE-59) vulnerability in Broadcom (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 44.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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.

CWE(s)
CWE-59

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

Broadcom
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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References