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CVE-2025-41244

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

65.1–80.1Priority evidence range
As known Jul 19, 2026, 5:00 AM UTCgen-56ccdaf9

Normalized restatement

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.

State
PUBLISHED
Published
Sep 29, 2025
Updated
Feb 26, 2026
Evidence coverage
85%
CISA KEVCatalog member

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

FIRST EPSS7.88%

2026-07-18 · v2026.06.15 · percentile 94.1%

Source stateNo scored conflict

Distinct CVSS assessments remain side by side; none are averaged.

Source comparison

Who said what

CISA-ADPindependent enrichment
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CISA ADP Vulnrichment

CVEderivative copy
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CVE Program Container

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

CISA KEVoriginal assertion
observed_exploitation

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

FIRST EPSSoriginal assertion
model_probability

Probability 0.078800000000; percentile 0.940550000000

Applicability

Cited product scope

Trace impact →
VMwareVCF operations
[{"status": "affected", "version": "9.0.x", "lessThan": "9.0.1.0", "versionType": "commercial"}]unknown
VMwareVMware Aria Operations
[{"status": "affected", "version": "8.18.x", "lessThan": "8.18.5", "versionType": "commercial"}]unknown
VMwareVMware Cloud Foundation
[{"status": "affected", "version": "5.x", "lessThan": "8.18.5", "versionType": "commercial"}, {"status": "affected", "version": "4.x", "lessThan": "8.18.5", "versionType": "commercial"}]unknown
VMwareVMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure
[{"status": "affected", "version": "3.x", "lessThan": "8.18.5", "versionType": "commercial"}, {"status": "affected", "version": "2.x", "lessThan": "8.18.5", "versionType": "commercial"}]unknown
VMwareVMware Telco Cloud Platform
[{"status": "affected", "version": "5.x", "lessThan": "8.18.5", "versionType": "commercial"}, {"status": "affected", "version": "4.x", "lessThan": "8.18.5", "versionType": "commercial"}]unknown
VMwareVMware tools
[{"status": "affected", "version": "13.x.x.x", "lessThan": "13.0.5.0", "versionType": "commercial"}, {"status": "affected", "version": "12.5.x", "lessThan": "12.5.4", "versionType": "commercial"}]unknown
Unknown vendorUnknown product
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:aria_operations:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*; start including 8.0; end excluding 8.18.5supported
Unknown vendorUnknown product
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*; start including 4.0; end including 5.2.2supported
Unknown vendorUnknown product
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation_operations:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*supported
Unknown vendorUnknown product
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:open_vm_tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*; start including 11.2.0; end excluding 12.5.4supported
Unknown vendorUnknown product
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:open_vm_tools:13.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*supported
Unknown vendorUnknown product
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:telco_cloud_infrastructure:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*; start including 2.2; end including 3.0supported
Unknown vendorUnknown product
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:telco_cloud_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*; start including 4.0; end excluding 5.0.1supported
Unknown vendorUnknown product
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*; start including 12.5.0; end excluding 12.5.4supported
Unknown vendorUnknown product
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*; start including 13.0.0.0; end excluding 13.0.5.0supported
Unknown vendorUnknown product
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*supported
Unknown vendorUnknown product
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*constrained
Unknown vendorUnknown product
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*constrained

Assessments

CVSS by origin

7.8
security@vmware.comCVSS 3.1 · role SecondaryCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8
vmwareCVSS 3.1 · role unknownCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Limitations and unknowns

  • KEV membership is authoritative for the catalog, not proof of exposure in any environment.
  • EPSS is a dated model probability and not an individual-environment prediction.
  • Affected or fixed status applies only to the exact cited product and version scope; unresolved scope remains unknown.
  • NVD-carried upstream facts remain derivative and are not independent corroboration.
  • Only NVD metrics validated under the generation-bound calculator are Public Priority eligible; direct CVE record metrics remain display-only.
  • NVD CVSS source eligibility is closed: NVD-authored, exact record-source, or registered same-CVE container origin; unmapped sources remain display-only.
  • Factor D is unknown in Public Core because no accepted canonical mapping-obligation ledger is present.
  • Core replay supports the active and immediately prior generation; retrospective valid-at replay is deferred.