CVE-2025-41244

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

29/09/2025

Last modified:

06/11/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:aria_operations::::::::	8.0 (including)	8.18.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation::::::::	4.0 (including)	5.2.2 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation_operations:9.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:open_vm_tools::::::::	11.2.0 (including)	12.5.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:open_vm_tools:13.0.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:telco_cloud_infrastructure::::::::	2.2 (including)	3.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:telco_cloud_platform::::::::	4.0 (including)	5.0.1 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:tools::::::::	12.5.0 (including)	12.5.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:tools::::::::	13.0.0.0 (including)	13.0.5.0 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2025-41244

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools