CVE-2025-41244

high CISA KEV

Broadcom VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools Privilege Defined with Unsafe Actions Vulnerability

Vendor / product: Broadcom — VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools

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.

CVSS

7.8

7.8 (CVSS v3.1)

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

Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (security@vmware.com)

Timeline (UTC)

Published: 2025-09-29 17:15

Modified: 2026-10-18 21:10

NVD status: Analyzed

Last synced 1 day ago

Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 07:07 UTC

Exploitation

Listed in CISA KEV

Added 2025-10-30 · due 2025-11-20

Known ransomware use: Unknown

Required action (CISA)

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

Affected products

vmware / aria_operations ≥8.0 <8.18.5

vmware / cloud_foundation ≥4.0 ≤5.2.2

vmware / cloud_foundation_operations 9.0

vmware / open_vm_tools ≥11.2.0 <12.5.4, 13.0.0

vmware / telco_cloud_infrastructure ≥2.2 ≤3.0

vmware / telco_cloud_platform ≥4.0 <5.0.1

debian / debian_linux 11.0

vmware / tools ≥12.5.0 <12.5.4, ≥13.0.0.0 <13.0.5.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-267

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36149

References

http://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/support-content-view/-/support-content/Security%20Ad... security@vmware.com
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/29/10 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00000.html af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://blog.nviso.eu/2025/09/29/you-name-it-vmware-elevates-it-cve-2025-41244/ 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/Secur... 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-41244 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Data sources

CISA KEV — fetched 2026-10-27 06:50 UTC · record ↗

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 07:07 UTC · record ↗

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