MSRXVulnerabilities / CVE-2025-41244
CVE-2025-41244
Published 2025-09-29 · published (not yet in NVD)
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)
Exploited in the wild: CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-10-30, with a fix-by date of 2025-11-20. Patch it first.
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
7.8 HIGH
CVSS 3.1 · CNA
CVSS 3.1 · CNA
8.6%
chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS; higher than 95% of CVEs)
chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS; higher than 95% of CVEs)
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.
Scores
Affected products
- VMware VCF operations: 9.0.x to < 9.0.1.0
- VMware VMware tools: 13.x.x.x to < 13.0.5.0; 12.5.x to < 12.5.4
- VMware VMware Aria Operations: 8.18.x to < 8.18.5
- VMware VMware Cloud Foundation: 5.x to < 8.18.5; 4.x to < 8.18.5
- VMware VMware Telco Cloud Platform: 5.x to < 8.18.5; 4.x to < 8.18.5
- VMware VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure: 3.x to < 8.18.5; 2.x to < 8.18.5
Weakness: CWE-267
1 references (advisories, patches, write-ups)
Sources: CVE.org, OSV.dev, FIRST EPSS. Missing ones did not answer or have no record yet.