HIGHCVSS 7.8KNOWN EXPLOITED

CVE-2025-41244

CVE-2025-41244 updated by NVD

Published: 2025-10-30
Modified: 2026-11-04
Sources: cisa-kev, nvd

Summary

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.

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-41244

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