CVE-2025-41244
HIGH7.8⚠ KEVEPSS 0.53%open-vm-tools - security update
Published: 9/29/2025Modified: 4/28/2026Added to CISA KEV: 10/30/2025
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/open-vm-toolsfrom 0, < 2:11.2.5-2+deb11u5
- Debian/open-vm-toolsfrom 0, < 2:11.2.5-2+deb11u5
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |