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CVE-2025-41244: 
VMware Tools vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-41244, discovered and disclosed on September 29, 2025. The vulnerability affects multiple VMware products including VMware Aria Operations, VMware Tools, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Telco Cloud Platform, and VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure (VMware Advisory).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSSv3.1 base score of 7.8 (High) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. The vulnerability is specifically related to systems with SDMP (Software Defined Memory Protection) enabled and is classified under CWE-267 (Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions) (NVD).

Impact

If exploited, this vulnerability allows a malicious local actor with non-administrative privileges to escalate their privileges to root level on a virtual machine that has VMware Tools installed and is managed by Aria Operations with SDMP enabled (VMware Advisory).

Mitigation and workarounds

Broadcom has released patches to address this vulnerability. Users should upgrade to VMware Tools version 13.0.5.0 for version 13.x systems, or version 12.5.4 for version 12.x and 11.x systems. For VMware Aria Operations, users should upgrade to version 8.18.5. For Linux systems, a version of open-vm-tools that addresses CVE-2025-41244 will be distributed by Linux vendors (VMware Advisory).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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