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OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20067-1

Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse - Published: 2026-01-20 11:02 - Updated: 2026-01-20 11:02

Summary

Security update of open-vm-tools

Severity

Important

Notes

Title of the patch: Security update of open-vm-tools

Description of the patch: This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues: Update to open-vm-tools 13.0.5 based on build 24915695. (boo#1250692): Please refer to the Release Notes at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-13.0.5/ReleaseNotes.md. The granular changes that have gone into the open-vm-tools 13.0.5 release are in the ChangeLog at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-13.0.5/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog. There are no new features in the open-vm-tools 13.0.5 release. This is primarily a maintenance release that addresses a security issue. This release resolves and includes the patch for CVE-2025-41244. For more information on this vulnerability and its impact on Broadcom products, see VMSA-2025-0015. A minor enhancement has been made for Guest OS Customization. The DeployPkg plugin has been updated to use "systemctl reboot", if available. For a more complete list of issues addressed in this release, see the What's New and Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.

Patchnames: openSUSE-Leap-16.0-158

CVE-2025-41244

7.8 (High)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Recommended 13 products

Product	Version	Remediation
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Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 16.0:libvmtools0-13.0.5-160000.1.1.aarch64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 16.0:libvmtools0-13.0.5-160000.1.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 16.0:open-vm-tools-13.0.5-160000.1.1.aarch64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 16.0:open-vm-tools-13.0.5-160000.1.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 16.0:open-vm-tools-containerinfo-13.0.5-160000.1.1.aarch64	—	Vendor Fix
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Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 16.0:open-vm-tools-desktop-13.0.5-160000.1.1.aarch64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 16.0:open-vm-tools-desktop-13.0.5-160000.1.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 16.0:open-vm-tools-salt-minion-13.0.5-160000.1.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 16.0:open-vm-tools-sdmp-13.0.5-160000.1.1.aarch64	—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 16.0:open-vm-tools-sdmp-13.0.5-160000.1.1.x86_64	—	Vendor Fix

Threats

Impact important

References

7 references

URL	Category
https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/	external
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/o…	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1250373	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1250692	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-41244/	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-41244	external
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1250373	external

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CVE-2025-41244 (GCVE-0-2025-41244)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-29 16:09 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:47

Title

VMSA-2025-0015: VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools updates address multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-41244,CVE-2025-41245, CVE-2025-41246)

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.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: active Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-10-30 03:56 UTC

CWE

CWE-267

Assigner

vmware mitre root

References

6 references

URL	Tags
http://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/support-con…
https://blog.nviso.eu/2025/09/29/you-name-it-vmwa…	exploittechnical-description
https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-cont…	vendor-advisory
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilit…	government-resource
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/0…

Impacted products

6 products

Vendor	Product	Version
VMware	VCF operations	Affected: 9.0.x , < 9.0.1.0 (commercial)
VMware	VMware tools	Affected: 13.x.x.x , < 13.0.5.0 (commercial) Affected: 12.5.x , < 12.5.4 (commercial)
VMware	VMware Aria Operations	Affected: 8.18.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
VMware	VMware Cloud Foundation	Affected: 5.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial) Affected: 4.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
VMware	VMware Telco Cloud Platform	Affected: 5.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial) Affected: 4.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
VMware	VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure	Affected: 3.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial) Affected: 2.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)

Date Public

2025-09-29 16:00

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