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fkie_cve-2025-41250

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-09-29 18:15

Modified

2025-09-29 19:34

Severity ?

8.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L

Summary

VMware vCenter contains an SMTP header injection vulnerability. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges on vCenter who has permission to create scheduled tasks may be able to manipulate the notification emails sent for scheduled tasks.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	security@vmware.com	https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36150

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2025-41250 (GCVE-0-2025-41250)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-09-29 17:44

Modified

2025-09-30 03:55

Severity ?

8.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L

CWE

CWE-77 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36150

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

▼

VMware

vCenter

Version: 8.0 < 8.0 U3g
Version: 7.0 < 7.0 U3w

VMware	Cloud Foundation	Version: 9.x.x.x < 9.0.1.0 Version: 5.x < 5.2.2 Version: 4.5.x
VMware	Telco Cloud Platform	Version: 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
VMware	Telco Cloud Infrastructure	Version: 3.x, 2.x
VMware	vSphere Foundation	Version: 9.x.x.x < 9.0.1.0

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

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Not exploited: This vulnerability was not exploited or seen by the user reporting the sighting.
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Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.

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