CVE-2025-41244 — Broadcom VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools Privilege Defined with Unsafe A

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

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
VMware	VCF operations	9.0.x
VMware	VMware tools	13.x.x.x, 12.5.x
VMware	VMware Aria Operations	8.18.x
VMware	VMware Cloud Foundation	5.x, 4.x
VMware	VMware Telco Cloud Platform	5.x, 4.x
VMware	VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure	3.x, 2.x

03Active exploitation status

Yes — actively exploited. Added to the CISA KEV catalog on 2025-10-30. Ransomware use: Unknown.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

08Timeline

• Published: 2025-09-29T16:09:51.871Z
• Last modified: 2026-02-26T17:47:52.174Z
• Added to CISA KEV: 2025-10-30
• BOD 22-01 due: 2025-11-20

09References

• support.broadcom.com — http://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/support-content-view/-/support-content/Sec…