VULNERABILITY

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2025-22247: Security patch for open-vm-tools (ALAS-2025-2864)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2025-22247: Security patch for open-vm-tools (ALAS-2025-2864)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:C/A:N)
Published
05/12/2025
Created
05/31/2025
Added
05/30/2025
Modified
05/30/2025

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-open-vm-tools
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-open-vm-tools-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-open-vm-tools-desktop
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-open-vm-tools-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-open-vm-tools-salt-minion
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-open-vm-tools-sdmp
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-open-vm-tools-test

References

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