CVE-2025-41244
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 8.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 95% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV
- listed 2025-10-30, due 2025-11-20
- CWE
- CWE-267
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- vmware:aria_operations
- vmware:cloud_foundation
- vmware:cloud_foundation_operations
- vmware:open_vm_tools
- vmware:telco_cloud_infrastructure
- vmware:telco_cloud_platform
- vmware:tools
References
- http://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
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/29/10
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00000.html
- https://blog.nviso.eu/2025/09/29/you-name-it-vmware-elevates-it-cve-2025-41244/
- https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36149