Introduction Broadcom has released VMSA-2025-0006, disclosing a local privilege escalation vulnerability in VMware Aria Operations. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-22231 and impacts multiple VMware platforms. Any attacker with local administrative access to the appliance can escalate privileges to root. There is no workaround. Patching is required. What Is It? CVE-2025-22231 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the following products: VMware Aria O
