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Status published
High
CVE-2025-41244
VMSA-2025-0015: VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools updates address multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-41244,CVE-2025-41245, CVE-2025-41246)
Vulnerability 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 Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
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Affected Vendor
VMware
View all reports →Affected Software
VCF operations, VMware tools, VMware Aria Operations, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Telco Cloud Platform, VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure
Vulnerable Versions:
9.0.x, 13.x.x.x, 12.5.x, 8.18.x, 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
Timeline
Official Publish:
September 29th, 2025
Last Modified:
February 26th, 2026
Added to House:
July 22nd, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.