UNKNOWNKNOWN EXPLOITED

CVE-2025-41244

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

Published: 2025-10-30
Modified: 2026-07-31
Sources: cisa-kev

Summary

Broadcom VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools contain a privilege defined with unsafe actions 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://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

Includes data from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

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