How severe is CVE-2025-41244?

CVE-2025-41244 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 8.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2025-41244: VMSA-2025-0015: VMware Aria Operations and VMware

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Broadcom VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools Privilege Defined with Unsafe Actions Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2025-10-30

Remediation due

2025-11-20

Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

CISA notes
https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36149 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-41244

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CNA7.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
VMware	VCF operations	9.0.x to <9.0.1.0
VMware	VMware tools	13.x.x.x to <13.0.5.0 12.5.x to <12.5.4
VMware	VMware Aria Operations	8.18.x to <8.18.5
VMware	VMware Cloud Foundation	5.x to <8.18.5 4.x to <8.18.5
VMware	VMware Telco Cloud Platform	5.x to <8.18.5 4.x to <8.18.5
VMware	VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure	3.x to <8.18.5 2.x to <8.18.5

References

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Other references

Record Details

Published

2025-09-29

Last updated

2026-02-26

Assigner (CNA)

vmware

Credited to

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