| Name | CVE-2025-41244 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-4316-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| open-vm-tools (PTS) | bullseye | 2:11.2.5-2+deb11u3 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 2:11.2.5-2+deb11u5 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 2:12.2.0-1+deb12u3 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 2:12.5.0-2 | vulnerable |
| forky, sid | 2:13.0.5-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[trixie] - open-vm-tools <no-dsa> (Will be fixed via point release)
[bookworm] - open-vm-tools <no-dsa> (Will be fixed via point release)
https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/tree/CVE-2025-41244.patch
https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36149