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 installed and managed by Aria Operations with SDMP enabled may exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges to root on the same VM.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 7.8
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS probability
- 8.44%
- CISA KEV
- Known exploited vulnerability
- CWE
- CWE-267
- Published
- 2025-09-29
- Last modified
- 2026-02-26
Affected products
- VMware VCF operations
- VMware VMware tools
- VMware VMware tools
- VMware VMware Aria Operations
- VMware VMware Cloud Foundation
- VMware VMware Cloud Foundation
- VMware VMware Telco Cloud Platform
- VMware VMware Telco Cloud Platform
Weakness type
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