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.
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Score 6.1 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2025-05-12. NVD baseline CVSS 6.1; sources differ by 0.0.
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.
May 12, 2025
April 15, 2026
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | open-vm-tools-sdmp (2:12.3.5-3~ubuntu0.22.04.2) @ jammy | 2026-05-21 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | open-vm-tools-dev (2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm5) @ xenial | 2026-05-21 | ubuntu |
| redhat | open-vm-tools-0:12.3.5-2.el8_10.2 | 2026-01-20 | redhat |
| redhat | open-vm-tools-0:13.0.0-1.el9_7.1 | 2025-11-11 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
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