CVE-2025-41244 Affecting libvmtools-devel package, versions <13.0.0-150300.64.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-LIBVMTOOLSDEVEL-13176202
  • published2 Oct 2025
  • disclosed30 Sept 2025

Introduced: 30 Sep 2025

NewCVE-2025-41244  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 libvmtools-devel to version 13.0.0-150300.64.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvmtools-devel package and not the libvmtools-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 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