CVE-2025-41244 (GCVE-0-2025-41244)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-29 16:09 – Updated: 2025-11-04 21:10
VLAI? CISA
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
VMware VCF operations Affected: 9.0.x , < 9.0.1.0 (commercial)
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    VMware VMware tools Affected: 13.x.x.x , < 13.0.5.0 (commercial)
Affected: 12.5.x , < 12.5.4 (commercial)
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    VMware VMware Aria Operations Affected: 8.18.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
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    VMware VMware Cloud Foundation Affected: 5.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
Affected: 4.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
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    VMware VMware Telco Cloud Platform Affected: 5.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
Affected: 4.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
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    VMware VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure Affected: 3.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
Affected: 2.x , < 8.18.5 (commercial)
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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
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Date added: 2025-10-30

Due date: 2025-11-20

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

Used in ransomware: Unknown

Notes: https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36149 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-41244

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