CVE-2025-22249
VMSA-2025-0008: VMware Aria automation updates address a DOM based Cross-site scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-22249)
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- vmware
Description
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 malicious crafted payload URL.
Timeline
ID reserved
By vmware
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| vmwareCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.36% · top 70% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.2.
Weakness
Affected products
VMware · Vmware Aria Automation
- affected 8.18.x – < 8.18.1 patch2
VMware · VMware Cloud Foundation
- affected 5.x – < 8.18.1 patch 2
- affected 4.x – < 8.18.1 patch 2
VMware · VMware Telco Cloud Platform
- affected 5.x – < 8.18.1 patch 2
References (1)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Badge for a README or a ticket
[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2025-22249)Record last updated .