Description
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.
Problem types
Product status
9.0.x before 9.0.1.0
13.x.x.x before 13.0.5.0
12.5.x before 12.5.4
8.18.x before 8.18.5
5.x before 8.18.5
4.x before 8.18.5
5.x before 8.18.5
4.x before 8.18.5
3.x before 8.18.5
2.x before 8.18.5
References
support.broadcom.com/...VE-2025-41245--CVE-2025-41246-/36149