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CVE

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 install...
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CVE

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 install...

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.

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
7.8
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3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
0
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
-

Related Resources

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References

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-41244, 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, 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

Severity

7.8

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
7.8
EPSS Probability
0.00915%
EPSS Percentile
0.75408%
Introduced Version
8acaae0cc520a55c496ab850263c7f8ac66f33b9,0
Fix Available
49ebc382812d037b185720bd72d56b4ed0f4a7c6,0:12.5.0-1.el9_6.2,0:12.3.5-2.el8_10.1,2:12.2.0-1+deb12u4,2:11.2.5-2+deb11u5,2:12.5.0-2+deb13u1,2:12.5.0-1~ubuntu0.24.04.2,2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.8+esm1,2:12.3.5-3~ubuntu0.22.04.3,0:12.5.0-1.0.1.el9_6.2,0:12.3.5-2.0.1.el8_10.1,0:12.3.0-1.amzn2023.0.5,0:12.3.0-1.amzn2.0.4

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