CVE-2025-41229 (GCVE-0-2025-41229)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-20 12:53
Modified
2025-06-24 14:57
Severity ?
8.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
VMware Cloud Foundation Version: 5.x   < 5.2.1.2
Version: 4.5.x
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