CVE-2025-41244 (GCVE-0-2025-41244)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-29 16:09
Modified
2025-10-01 03:55
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
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-/36149
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://blog.nviso.eu/2025/09/29/you-name-it-vmware-elevates-it-cve-2025-41244/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
VMware VCF operations Version: 9.0.x
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   VMware VMware tools Version: 13.x.x.x
Version: 12.5.x
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   VMware VMware Aria Operations Version: 8.18.x
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   VMware VMware Cloud Foundation Version: 5.x
Version: 4.x
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   VMware VMware Telco Cloud Platform Version: 5.x
Version: 4.x
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   VMware VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure Version: 3.x
Version: 2.x
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