CVE detail
CVE-2025-41244 — Broadcom VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools Privilege Defined with Unsafe Actions Vulnerability
Published 2025-10-30 · Modified 2025-10-30 · Source kev
HIGH
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0788
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
94.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
LISTED
CISA KEV
due 2025-11-20
⚠ Actively exploited in the wild — CISA KEV listed 2025-10-30, federal remediation due 2025-11-20.
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.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References