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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-04-16 | Published 2025-09-29 | Updated 2025-11-04 | Assigner vmware




HIGH: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

Date added 2025-10-30 | Due date 2025-11-20

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Problem types

CWE-267

Product status

Default status
unaffected

9.0.x (commercial) before 9.0.1.0
affected

Default status
unaffected

13.x.x.x (commercial) before 13.0.5.0
affected

12.5.x (commercial) before 12.5.4
affected

Default status
unaffected

8.18.x (commercial) before 8.18.5
affected

Default status
unaffected

5.x (commercial) before 8.18.5
affected

4.x (commercial) before 8.18.5
affected

Default status
unaffected

5.x (commercial) before 8.18.5
affected

4.x (commercial) before 8.18.5
affected

Default status
unaffected

3.x (commercial) before 8.18.5
affected

2.x (commercial) before 8.18.5
affected

References

blog.nviso.eu/...-name-it-vmware-elevates-it-cve-2025-41244/ exploit technical-description

support.broadcom.com/...l/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36149 vendor-advisory

www.cisa.gov/...erabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-41244 government-resource

lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00000.html

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/29/10

support.broadcom.com/...VE-2025-41245--CVE-2025-41246-/36149

cve.org (CVE-2025-41244)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-41244)

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