Unrated severityCISA KEVNVD Advisory· Published Sep 29, 2025· Updated Feb 26, 2026
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
Description
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.
Affected products
48(expand)+ 1 more
- (no CPE)
- (no CPE)range: 8.18.x
- osv-coords40 versionspkg:rpm/almalinux/open-vm-toolspkg:rpm/almalinux/open-vm-tools-desktoppkg:rpm/almalinux/open-vm-tools-salt-minionpkg:rpm/almalinux/open-vm-tools-sdmppkg:rpm/almalinux/open-vm-tools-testpkg:rpm/opensuse/open-vm-tools&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/open-vm-tools&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/open-vm-tools&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.1pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.3pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.4pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.5pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP7pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Containers%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Containers%2015%20SP7pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Desktop%20Applications%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Desktop%20Applications%2015%20SP7pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2016.0pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20applications%2016.0pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20LTSS%20Extended%20Security%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.0pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.1pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.2pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%20LTS%204.3pkg:rpm/suse/open-vm-tools&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%20LTS%204.3
< 12.5.0-1.el9_6.2+ 39 more
- (no CPE)range: < 12.5.0-1.el9_6.2
- (no CPE)range: < 12.5.0-1.el9_6.2
- (no CPE)range: < 12.5.0-1.el9_6.2
- (no CPE)range: < 12.5.0-1.el9_6.2
- (no CPE)range: < 12.5.0-1.el9_6.2
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150600.3.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.5-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.5-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150300.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150300.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150300.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150300.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150300.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150300.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150300.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150300.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150300.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150300.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150300.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150600.3.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150600.3.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150600.3.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150600.3.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150600.3.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150600.3.18.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-4.89.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150300.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150300.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150300.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.5-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150300.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150300.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150300.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.5-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-4.89.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.5-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.10-slfo.1.1_1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.5-160000.1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150300.64.1
- (no CPE)range: < 13.0.0-150300.64.1
- Range: 9.0.x
- Range: 5.x
- Range: 3.x
- VMware/VMware Telco Cloud Platformv5Range: 5.x
- Range: 13.x.x.x
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1News mentions
1- Inside the customer environment: Where threat actors, vulnerabilities, and exposed assets intersectTenable Blog · May 27, 2026