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CVE-2025-41244

CVE-2025-41244HIGH

VMware VCF operations — VMSA-2025-0015: VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools updates address multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-41244,CVE-2025-41245, CVE-2025-41246)

  AV  AC  PR  UI  S  C  I  A   CVSS    EPSS   %ile   KEV
   L   L   L   N  U  H  H  H    7.8   .0844   94.8   YES

AFFECTED
  Product                            Versions    Fixed
  VCF operations                     9.0.x –     —
  VMware tools                       13.x.x.x –  —
  VMware Aria Operations             8.18.x –    —
  VMware Cloud Foundation            5.x –       —
  VMware Telco Cloud Platform        5.x –       —
  VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure  3.x –       —

TIMELINE
  Apr 16  Reserved by vmware
  Sep 29  Published (CNA: vmware)
  Oct 30  Added to CISA KEV, remediation due 2025-11-20

CWE-267 · CNA: vmware · CVSS v3.1 · 6 references · KEV due November 20, 2025

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.

Lifecycle

Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
Date	Event	Detail
April 16, 2025	Reserved	Reserved by vmware
September 29, 2025	Published	Published (CNA: vmware)
October 30, 2025	KEV ADDED	Added to CISA KEV, remediation due 2025-11-20

Affected

Affected products and packages — 6 rows
Vendor	Product / Package	Ecosystem	Version introduced	Fixed
VMware	VCF operations	—	9.0.x	—
VMware	VMware tools	—	13.x.x.x	—
VMware	VMware Aria Operations	—	8.18.x	—
VMware	VMware Cloud Foundation	—	5.x	—
VMware	VMware Telco Cloud Platform	—	5.x	—
VMware	VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure	—	3.x	—

Weaknesses

CWE-267

References (6)

Authoritative record: CVE-2025-41244 at cve.org

Vendors: vmware

Weaknesses: CWE-267

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This is a reference page, not a dated page of record. It assembles the complete lifecycle of CVE-2025-41244 from the CVE Program record, NVD enrichment, the CISA KEV catalog, EPSS, and OSV advisories. The box score's numbers (CVSS, EPSS, KEV status) are current as of Sunday, October 4, 2026 UTC and are re-derived as the archive grows; only dated daily editions are immutable pages of record. The authoritative source for this identifier is cve.org.