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Vulnerability Analysis
VMSA-2025-0015: VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools updates address multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-41244,CVE-2025-41245, CVE-2025-41246)

CVE-2025-41244

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.

CISA KEV
CVSS Base Score
7.8
HIGH
Exploitability:1.9
Impact Score:5.9
Temporal Score:-
EPSS:7.61%

Threat Intelligence Signals

CISA KEV
YES
KEV Date Added
2025-10-30
Ransomware Use
Unknown
KEV Due Date
2025-11-20
VulnCheck In-the-Wild
No
Nuclei Template
No
EPSS Score
7.606%
EPSS Percentile
93.8th pct
GitHub Severity
HIGH
SSVC Exploitation
SSVC Automatable
Vulnerability Class

Identity & Timeline

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Exploit DB ReferencesNone identified

Affected Products & Versions

Vendor Product Affected Versions
No affected products specified.

References

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