Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package open-vm-tools-desktop (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
Snyk has reported that there have been attempts or successful attacks targeting this vulnerability.
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- published2 Oct 2025
- disclosed29 Sept 2025
Introduced: 29 Sep 2025
CVE-2025-41244 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream open-vm-tools-desktop package and not the open-vm-tools-desktop package as distributed by RHEL.
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.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-41244
- 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
- https://blog.nviso.eu/2025/09/29/you-name-it-vmware-elevates-it-cve-2025-41244/
- https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36149
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-41244
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00000.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/29/10
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog