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FKIE_CVE-2025-41244

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-09-29 17:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:22
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious local actor with non-administrative privileges having access to a VM with VMware Tools installed and managed by Aria Operations with SDMP enabled may exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges to root on the same VM.
References
security@vmware.comhttp://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/support-content-view/-/support-content/Security%20Advisories/VMSA-2025-0015--VMware-Aria-Operations-and-VMware-Tools-updates-address-multiple-vulnerabilities--CVE-2025-41244-CVE-2025-41245--CVE-2025-41246-/36149Permissions Required
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/29/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://blog.nviso.eu/2025/09/29/you-name-it-vmware-elevates-it-cve-2025-41244/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36149Vendor Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-41244US Government Resource
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
vmware aria_operations *
vmware cloud_foundation *
vmware cloud_foundation_operations 9.0
vmware open_vm_tools *
vmware open_vm_tools 13.0.0
vmware telco_cloud_infrastructure *
vmware telco_cloud_platform *
debian debian_linux 11.0
vmware tools *
vmware tools *
linux linux_kernel -
microsoft windows -
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