Improper Handling of Insufficient Permissions or Privileges Affecting open-vm-tools-test package, versions <0:11.3.5-1.el9_0.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Attacked
EPSS
8.44% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-OPENVMTOOLSTEST-13378876
  • published7 Oct 2025
  • disclosed29 Sept 2025

Introduced: 29 Sep 2025

CVE-2025-41244  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-280  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 open-vm-tools-test to version 0:11.3.5-1.el9_0.6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2025:17452.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream open-vm-tools-test package and not the open-vm-tools-test package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1