Description

VMware Aria Operations contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges can escalate their privileges to root on the appliance running VMware Aria Operations.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-22231

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.8

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: VMware

Product: VMware Aria operations

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 2.27% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-30 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22231
https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25541

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