Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2-2025-2864
Advisory Released Date: 2025-05-29
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-05-29
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
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)
Affected Packages:
open-vm-tools
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update open-vm-tools to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
open-vm-tools-12.3.0-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-desktop-12.3.0-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.3.0-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-devel-12.3.0-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-test-12.3.0-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.3.0-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
src:
open-vm-tools-12.3.0-1.amzn2.0.2.src
x86_64:
open-vm-tools-12.3.0-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-desktop-12.3.0-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.3.0-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.3.0-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-devel-12.3.0-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-test-12.3.0-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.3.0-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64