VMware Aria Ops LPE to root on appliance
CVE-2025-22231 Published on April 1, 2025
VMware Aria Operations updates address a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-22231)
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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-22231 can be exploited with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
Improper Privilege Management
The software does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-22231
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Affected Versions
VMware Aria operations:- Version 8.x and below 8.18 HF5 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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