Risk Letters

Exploited vulnerability

CVE-2025-41244

TLP:CLEAR

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

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.

Facts

  • Vendor: Broadcom
  • Product: VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools
  • CVSS: 7.8
  • EPSS (probability of exploitation within 30 days): 8.6 %
  • On CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list since: 30 October 2025
  • First known exploitation: 30 October 2025
  • CISA's deadline for US federal agencies: 20 November 2025
  • Weakness: CWE-267
  • First seen by Risk Letters: 30 October 2025

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Data: NVD (public domain), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, MITRE ATT&CK, AlienVault OTX. NVD