Access-token theft via crafted DOM payload URL
Published May 13, 2025 · Updated May 13, 2025
DOM-based XSS in VMware Aria Automation 8.18.x allows remote attackers to steal a logged-in user's access token via a crafted URL. Client-side DOM handling processes attacker-controlled URL data as active page content, but VMware has not disclosed the exact source, sink, or missing neutralization step. Exploitation requires the logged-in user to open the crafted link; the documented consequence is theft of that user's appliance access token.
Summary
What happened
DOM-based XSS in VMware Aria Automation 8.18.x allows remote attackers to steal a logged-in user's access token via a crafted URL. Client-side DOM handling processes attacker-controlled URL data as active page content, but VMware has not disclosed the exact source, sink, or missing neutralization step. Exploitation requires the logged-in user to open the crafted link; the documented consequence is theft of that user's appliance access token.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-22249
- Published
- May 13, 2025
- Updated
- May 13, 2025
- Vendor
- VMware
- Product
- VMware Telco Cloud Platform
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1528, T1204.001
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- May 13, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 13, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=5.x <8.18.1 patch 2
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