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CVE-2025-41246

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
29/09/2025
Last modified:
29/09/2025

Description

VMware Tools for Windows contains an improper authorisation vulnerability due to the way it handles user access controls. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges on a guest VM, who is already authenticated through vCenter or ESX may exploit this issue to access other guest VMs. Successful exploitation requires knowledge of credentials of the targeted VMs and vCenter or ESX.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.60 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

Base Score 3.x
7.60
Severity 3.x
HIGH

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools