CVE-2025-22231: VMware Aria Operations

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• VMware VMware Aria Operations: from 8, before 8.18 HF5 (fixed in 8.18 HF5)

Published 2025-04-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.