CVE-2025-41244VMSA-2025-0015: VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools updates address multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-41244,CVE-2025-41245, CVE-2025-41246)
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 16.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.0% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 30 Oct 2025
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
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.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Broadcom VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools Privilege Defined with Unsafe Actions Vulnerability.
- Added
- 30 Oct 2025
- Fix due (US federal)
- 20 Nov 2025
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 30 Oct 2025.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Show the exploits1
References tagged exploit1 reference
- https://blog.nviso.eu/2025/09/29/you-name-it-vmware-elevates-it-cve-2025-41244/ (opens in a new tab)exploittechnical-description
Timeline
ID reserved
By vmware
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 31 days later
· 31 days later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| vmwareCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 16.4% · top 3.0% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
- affected 9.0.x – < 9.0.1.0
- affected 13.x.x.x – < 13.0.5.0
- affected 12.5.x – < 12.5.4
VMware · VMware Aria Operations
- affected 8.18.x – < 8.18.5
VMware · VMware Cloud Foundation
- affected 5.x – < 8.18.5
- affected 4.x – < 8.18.5
VMware · VMware Telco Cloud Platform
- affected 5.x – < 8.18.5
- affected 4.x – < 8.18.5
VMware · VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure
- affected 3.x – < 8.18.5
- affected 2.x – < 8.18.5
References
References6
- http://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/support-content-view/-/support-content/Security%20Advisories/VMSA-2025-0015--VMware-Aria-Operations-and-VMware-Tools-updates-address-multiple-vulnerabilities--CVE-2025-41244-CVE-2025-41245--CVE-2025-41246-/36149 (opens in a new tab)
- https://blog.nviso.eu/2025/09/29/you-name-it-vmware-elevates-it-cve-2025-41244/ (opens in a new tab)exploittechnical-description
- https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36149 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-41244 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00000.html (opens in a new tab)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/29/10 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-31589 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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