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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Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:30:00 +0000
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| 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. | |
| Title | VMSA-2025-0015: VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools updates address multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-41244,CVE-2025-41245, CVE-2025-41246) | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-267 | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: vmware
Published:
Updated: 2025-09-29T16:16:24.967Z
Reserved: 2025-04-16T09:30:17.799Z
Link: CVE-2025-41244
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NVD
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2025-09-29T17:15:30.843
Modified: 2025-09-29T19:34:10.030
Link: CVE-2025-41244
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