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CVE-2025-41244

KEV
Updated Feb 26, 2026 · PUBLISHED
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Description

Broadcom VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools contain a privilege defined with unsafe actions 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.

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Affected packages

PackageVendor / ProductVersion rangeStatus
VCF operationsVMware / VCF operations>= 9.0.x, < 9.0.1.0affected
VMware Aria OperationsVMware / VMware Aria Operations>= 8.18.x, < 8.18.5affected
VMware Cloud FoundationVMware / VMware Cloud Foundation>= 4.x, < 8.18.5affected
VMware Cloud FoundationVMware / VMware Cloud Foundation>= 5.x, < 8.18.5affected
VMware Telco Cloud InfrastructureVMware / VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure>= 2.x, < 8.18.5affected
VMware Telco Cloud InfrastructureVMware / VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure>= 3.x, < 8.18.5affected
VMware Telco Cloud PlatformVMware / VMware Telco Cloud Platform>= 4.x, < 8.18.5affected
VMware Telco Cloud PlatformVMware / VMware Telco Cloud Platform>= 5.x, < 8.18.5affected
VMware toolsVMware / VMware tools>= 12.5.x, < 12.5.4affected
VMware toolsVMware / VMware tools>= 13.x.x.x, < 13.0.5.0affected