VDB-326249 · CVE-2025-41244 · VMSA-2025-0015

VMware VCF operations prior 9.0.1.0 privilege defined with unsafe actions

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in VMware VCF operations, Tools, Aria Operations, Cloud Foundation, Telco Cloud Platform and Telco Cloud Infrastructure. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to privilege defined with unsafe actions. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-41244. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in VMware VCF operations, Tools, Aria Operations, Cloud Foundation, Telco Cloud Platform and Telco Cloud Infrastructure. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege defined with unsafe actions vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-267. A particular privilege, role, capability, or right can be used to perform unsafe actions that were not intended, even when it is assigned to the correct entity. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at support.broadcom.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-41244 since 04/16/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/25/2026). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

It is declared as attacked. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 266287 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-41244), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. The CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog lists this issue since 10/30/2025 with a due date of 11/20/2025:

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

Upgrading to version 9.0.1.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Zero-Day.cz (1036), Tenable (266287), EUVD (EUVD-2025-31589) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-2153). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

Affected

Debian Linux
Amazon Linux 2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Ubuntu Linux
SUSE Linux
Oracle Linux
SUSE openSUSE
RESF Rocky Linux
VMware Cloud Foundation
VMware vSphere
VMware Aria Operations
VMware Tools
Dell Secure Connect Gateway

Productinfo

Type

Cloud Software

Vendor

VMware

Name

License

commercial

Website

Vendor: https://www.vmware.com/

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.6

VulDB Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Temp Score: 7.5
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CNA Base Score: 7.8
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privilege defined with unsafe actions
CWE: CWE-267 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Attacked

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Nessus ID: 266287
Nessus Name: Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-41244

Zero-Day.cz: 🔒

Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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0-Day Time: 🔒

Upgrade: VCF operations/Tools/Aria Operations/Cloud Foundation/Telco Cloud Platform/Telco Cloud Infrastructure 9.0.1.0