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.

CVSS v3.1

7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

8.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 95th percentile

CISA KEV

added 2025-10-30

Published

2025-09-29

Updated

2026-02-26

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

• NULL200OK/CVE-2025-41244
• haspiranti/CVE-2025-41244-PoC

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2026-22730
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• CVE-2026-32302
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