CVE-2025-41244

CVE Details

Release Date:	2025-09-29
Impact:	Important	What is this?

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.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v3 metrics

Base Score:	7.8
Vector String:	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Version:	3.1
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	Low
Privileges Required:	Low
User Interaction:	None
Scope:	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact:	High
Integrity Impact:	High
Availability Impact:	High

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 10 (open-vm-tools)	ELSA-2025-17429	2025-10-07
Oracle Linux version 8 (open-vm-tools)	ELSA-2025-17509	2025-10-07
Oracle Linux version 9 (open-vm-tools)	ELSA-2025-17428	2025-10-07