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CVE-2025-41244

7.8, high Known exploited

Broadcom VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools Privilege Defined with Unsafe Actions Vulnerability

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CVSS
7.8, high high CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
8% higher than 94.9% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
Confirmed in the wild
Published
29 Sept 2025a year ago

Known exploited

CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 30 Oct 2025. US federal agencies had to remediate by 20 Nov 2025, a deadline that has passed.

Required action. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

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.

Details

Vendor
Broadcom
Product
VCF operations
Weakness
CWE-267 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Analyzed
Updated
17 Jun 2026
Assigner
security@vmware.com

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

References 6

Exploit code 1

Advisories 4

Other references 1

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

Other Broadcom CVEs

Every Broadcom CVE we hold

Same vendor in what we hold, not a known link between the flaws.

  • CVE-2026-59310 Broadcom VMware vCenter Path Traversal Vulnerability KEV EPSS 3% 9.8, critical
  • CVE-2026-22719 Broadcom VMware Aria Operations Command Injection Vulnerability KEV EPSS 18% 8.1, high
  • CVE-2025-1976 Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS Code Injection Vulnerability KEV EPSS 0.7% 6.7, medium
  • CVE-2024-37079 Broadcom VMware vCenter Server Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability KEV EPSS 22% 9.8, critical

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.