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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
VLAI CISA KEV
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 (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
VMware VCF operations Affected: 9.0.x , < 9.0.1.0 (commercial)
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VMware VMware tools Affected: 13.x.x.x , < 13.0.5.0 (commercial)
Affected: 12.5.x , < 12.5.4 (commercial)
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VMware VMware Aria Operations Affected: 8.18.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
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VMware VMware Cloud Foundation Affected: 5.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
Affected: 4.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
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VMware VMware Telco Cloud Platform Affected: 5.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
Affected: 4.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
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VMware VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure Affected: 3.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
Affected: 2.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
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Date Public
2025-09-29 16:00
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CVE-2023-34059 (GCVE-0-2023-34059)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-27 04:53 – Updated: 2025-03-06 15:39
VLAI
Summary
open-vm-tools contains a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. A malicious actor with non-root privileges may be able to hijack the /dev/uinput file descriptor allowing them to simulate user inputs.
Severity
7.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • File descriptor hijack vulnerability
  • CWE-404 - Improper Resource Shutdown or Release
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a open-vm-tools Affected: 11.0.0 , ≤ 12.3.0 (custom)
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CVE-2023-34058 (GCVE-0-2023-34058)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-27 04:53 – Updated: 2025-03-06 15:40
VLAI
Summary
VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html  in a target virtual machine may be able to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/d1902b0e-d479-46bf-8ac9-cee0e31e8ec0/07ce8dbd-db48-4261-9b8f-c6d3ad8ba472/vim.vm.guest.AliasManager.html .
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • SAML Token Signature Bypass vulnerability
  • CWE-347 - Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a VMware Tools Affected: 12.x.x
Affected: 11.x.x
Affected: 10.3.x
n/a open-vm-tools Affected: 11.0.0 , ≤ 12.3.0 (custom)
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CVE-2023-20900 (GCVE-0-2023-20900)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-31 09:45 – Updated: 2024-08-02 09:21
VLAI
Summary
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7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • SAML Token Signature Bypass vulnerability
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a VMware Tools Affected: 12.x.x
Affected: 11.x.x
Affected: 10.3.x
n/a VMware Tools Affected: 10.3.x
n/a VMware Tools (open-vm-tools) Affected: 12.x.x
Affected: 11.x.x
Affected: 10.3.x
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CVE-2009-1142 (GCVE-0-2009-1142)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-23 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-25 20:50
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp files if vmware-user-suid-wrapper is setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Assigner
References
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CVE-2025-41244 (GCVE-0-2025-41244)

Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2025-09-29 16:09 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:47
VLAI CISA KEV
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 (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
VMware VCF operations Affected: 9.0.x , < 9.0.1.0 (commercial)
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VMware VMware tools Affected: 13.x.x.x , < 13.0.5.0 (commercial)
Affected: 12.5.x , < 12.5.4 (commercial)
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VMware VMware Aria Operations Affected: 8.18.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
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VMware VMware Cloud Foundation Affected: 5.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
Affected: 4.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
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VMware VMware Telco Cloud Platform Affected: 5.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
Affected: 4.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
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VMware VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure Affected: 3.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
Affected: 2.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
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Date Public
2025-09-29 16:00
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CVE-2023-34059 (GCVE-0-2023-34059)

Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2023-10-27 04:53 – Updated: 2025-03-06 15:39
VLAI
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open-vm-tools contains a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. A malicious actor with non-root privileges may be able to hijack the /dev/uinput file descriptor allowing them to simulate user inputs.
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7.4 (High)
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SSVC
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CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
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Vendor Product Version
n/a open-vm-tools Affected: 11.0.0 , ≤ 12.3.0 (custom)
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CVE-2023-34058 (GCVE-0-2023-34058)

Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2023-10-27 04:53 – Updated: 2025-03-06 15:40
VLAI
Summary
VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html  in a target virtual machine may be able to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/d1902b0e-d479-46bf-8ac9-cee0e31e8ec0/07ce8dbd-db48-4261-9b8f-c6d3ad8ba472/vim.vm.guest.AliasManager.html .
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CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • SAML Token Signature Bypass vulnerability
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Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a VMware Tools Affected: 12.x.x
Affected: 11.x.x
Affected: 10.3.x
n/a open-vm-tools Affected: 11.0.0 , ≤ 12.3.0 (custom)
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CVE-2023-20900 (GCVE-0-2023-20900)

Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2023-08-31 09:45 – Updated: 2024-08-02 09:21
VLAI
Summary
A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html  in a target virtual machine may be able to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/d1902b0e-d479-46bf-8ac9-cee0e31e8ec0/07ce8dbd-db48-4261-9b8f-c6d3ad8ba472/vim.vm.guest.AliasManager.html .
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • SAML Token Signature Bypass vulnerability
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a VMware Tools Affected: 12.x.x
Affected: 11.x.x
Affected: 10.3.x
n/a VMware Tools Affected: 10.3.x
n/a VMware Tools (open-vm-tools) Affected: 12.x.x
Affected: 11.x.x
Affected: 10.3.x
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CVE-2009-1142 (GCVE-0-2009-1142)

Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2022-11-23 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-25 20:50
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp files if vmware-user-suid-wrapper is setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Assigner
References
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