CVE-2025-41229

VMware Cloud Foundation Directory Traversal Vulnerability

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 8.2
EPSS: EPSS 0.68 % · percentile 52 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2025-05-20
Updated: 2025-06-24
Assigner: vmware
NVD status: Deferred

Description

VMware Cloud Foundation contains a directory traversal vulnerability. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 on VMware Cloud Foundation may exploit this issue to access certain internal services.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N	vmware
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N	NVD · security@vmware.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-22

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-15838
GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-41229

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2025-AVI-0428 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans VMware Cloud Foundation · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected products

Product	Versions
VMware · Cloud Foundation	affected 5.x < 5.2.1.2 ; affected 4.5.x

References

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25733

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD