SecuriTricks - CVE-2025-41244

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor	Product	Versions
Vmware	Aria Operations Vmware Tools	* *

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-267

Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions

A particular privilege, role, capability, or right can be used to perform unsafe actions that were not intended, even when it is assigned to the correct entity.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language	Software Edition	Target Software	Target Hardware	Other Information
a	vmware	aria_operations	/	/	/	/	/	/	/	/
a	vmware	vmware_tools	/	/	/	/	/	/	/	/

References

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

https://blog.nviso.eu/2025/09/29/you-name-it-vmware-elevates-it-cve-2025-41244/

CVSS Score

7.8 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

Attack Vector: LOCAL
Attack Complexity: LOW
Privileges Required: LOW
Scope: UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
Integrity Impact: HIGH
Availability Impact: HIGH

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

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Timeline

Published: Sept. 29, 2025, 5:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Sept. 30, 2025, 1:15 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security@vmware.com

CVE-2025-41244