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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)

  • High 7.8
  • Exploited: added to CISA KEV 30 Oct 2025

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.

Key facts

Published
29 Sep 2025
Last changed
26 Feb 2026
Assigned by
vmware
KEV added
30 Oct 2025
KEV fix due
20 Nov 2025
EPSS
16.377% likely to be exploited in the next 30 days, higher than 97.021% of CVEs (scores for 15 Nov 2026)
SSVC (CISA)
Exploitation: active; Automatable: no; Technical impact: total

Severity scores

Each score is shown as its source gave it. They are not averaged or merged.

  • 7.8CVSS 3.1, Highfrom the CNA (vmware)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What to do

  • Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.CISA KEV required action

Historical context and remediation

This reference retains the original CVE publication date. A recent record update does not mean a new attack occurred.

No separately sourced impact summary is available on this page yet. Consult the description, version data and dated exploitation evidence.

Version statuses below come from the CNA. An “unaffected” version is not necessarily a currently supported release or proof of a patch date. EPSS is a dated risk estimate, not a count of historical attacks.

Read the original CVE record.

Affected products

VendorProductVersions
VMwareVCF operations
  • Default status: unaffected
  • 9.0.x up to but excluding 9.0.1.0 (affected)
VMwareVMware tools
  • Default status: unaffected
  • 13.x.x.x up to but excluding 13.0.5.0 (affected)
  • 12.5.x up to but excluding 12.5.4 (affected)
VMwareVMware Aria Operations
  • Default status: unaffected
  • 8.18.x up to but excluding 8.18.5 (affected)
VMwareVMware Cloud Foundation
  • Default status: unaffected
  • 5.x up to but excluding 8.18.5 (affected)
  • 4.x up to but excluding 8.18.5 (affected)
VMwareVMware Telco Cloud Platform
  • Default status: unaffected
  • 5.x up to but excluding 8.18.5 (affected)
  • 4.x up to but excluding 8.18.5 (affected)
VMwareVMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure
  • Default status: unaffected
  • 3.x up to but excluding 8.18.5 (affected)
  • 2.x up to but excluding 8.18.5 (affected)

Timeline

  1. 29 Sep 2025 Published
  2. 30 Oct 2025 CVE-2025-41244 added to CISA KEV
  3. 30 Oct 2025 Added to the CISA KEV catalogue

Weakness

References