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VMware Patches High-Risk Flaws in Oft-Targeted Aria Operations Products

VMware calls attention to patches for multiple ‘high-risk’ security defects in its Aria Operations and Aria Operations for Logs products.

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Enterprise technology vendor VMware on Thursday shipped patches for at least five security defects in its Aria Operations and Aria Operations for Logs products, warning that hackers could exploit these issues to gain admin access.

According to a ‘high-risk’ bulletin from VMware, the two most serious issues (CVE-2025-22218 and CVE-2025-22222) are information disclosure bugs that allows a users to elevate access rights.

The company called special attention to CVE-2025-22218 (CVSS severity score 8.5/10) that affects the enterprise-facing Aria Operations for Logs product. VMware said user with ‘View Only Admin’ permissions could access credentials for an integrated VMware product.

The second information disclosure issue, which affects Aria Operations, allows a user with non-administrative privileges to retrieve credentials for an outbound plugin if a valid service credential ID is known.

The company also flagged several moderate-severity issues that allows stored cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks where non-admin users can inject a malicious script that executes as an admin, potentially allowing unauthorized actions.

VMware also patched a broken access control vulnerability in Aria Operations for Logs that can be exploited by a non-admin user with network access to the API to execute operations as an admin.

The company cautioned that there are no pre-patch workarounds for these vulnerabilities, meaning patching is required to mitigate the risks. The company released fixes in Aria Operations for Logs 8.18.3 and Aria Operations 8.18.3. 

It’s not uncommon for threat actors to exploit VMware product vulnerabilities in their attacks, including flaws in Aria Operations.

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Ryan Naraine is Editor-at-Large at SecurityWeek and host of the popular Security Conversations podcast series. He is a security community engagement expert who has built programs at major global brands, including Intel Corp., Bishop Fox and GReAT. Ryan is a founding-director of the Security Tinkerers non-profit, an advisor to early-stage entrepreneurs, and a regular speaker at security conferences around the world.

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