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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 2025-10-01 | Assigner vmware




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

Problem types

CWE-267

Product status

Default status
unaffected

9.0.x before 9.0.1.0
affected

Default status
unaffected

13.x.x.x before 13.0.5.0
affected

12.5.x before 12.5.4
affected

Default status
unaffected

8.18.x before 8.18.5
affected

Default status
unaffected

5.x before 8.18.5
affected

4.x before 8.18.5
affected

Default status
unaffected

5.x before 8.18.5
affected

4.x before 8.18.5
affected

Default status
unaffected

3.x before 8.18.5
affected

2.x before 8.18.5
affected

References

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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