Introduction Broadcom has issued a moderate-severity security advisory, VMSA-2025-0007, addressing a newly disclosed vulnerability in VMware Tools identified as CVE-2025-22247. This vulnerability affects both Windows and Linux guest operating systems and introduces a risk scenario where a non-privileged user inside a virtual machine could tamper with file operations carried out by VMware Tools. Although this flaw is not exploitable for guest-to-host escape, it may allow local