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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-22247

medium Nessus Plugin ID 251972

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - 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.
 (CVE-2025-22247)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-22247

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 251972

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2025_22247.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 11/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-22247

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-22247

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:open-vm-tools-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:open-vm-tools-test, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:open-vm-tools-desktop, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:open-vm-tools-sdmp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:open-vm-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:open-vm-tools-sdmp, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:open-vm-tools-salt-minion, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:open-vm-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:open-vm-tools-salt-minion, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:open-vm-tools-desktop, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-22247