CVE-2025-41244

Broadcom · Published September 29, 2025

7.8

CVSS v3.1

HIGH

CISA KEV — Federal agencies must patch by deadline

Actively exploited in the wild

Patch availableGet patch

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.

Affected Products

Aria Operations < 8.18.5
Cloud Foundation <= 5.2.2
Cloud Foundation Operations
Open VM Tools < 12.5.4

CVSS Vector

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