CVE-2025-22249
Published: 13 May 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-22249 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Vmware Aria Automation. Its CVSS base score is 8.2 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 40.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-14367
Vulnerability details
VMware Aria automation contains a DOM based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. A malicious actor may exploit this issue to steal the access token of a logged in user of VMware Aria automation appliance by tricking the user into clicking a…
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malicious crafted payload URL.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.