CVE-2025-41244

HIGH7.8

CISA KEV

Published 2025-09-29 · Updated 2026-10-18 · Source security@vmware.com

Summary

CVE-2025-41244 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in Broadcom VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on October 30, 2025, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by November 20, 2025. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Broadcom has 6 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 1 of them linked to ransomware.

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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.

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

CWE-267

CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability

Product: Broadcom — VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools

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

Date added: 2025-10-30 · Due: 2025-11-20

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.

References

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More exploited Broadcom vulnerabilities

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CVE-2026-41709
VMware ESX — Broadcom VMWare ESX Insufficient Logging Vulnerability
added 2026-10-28
CVE-2026-59310
RANSOMWARE
VMware vCenter — Broadcom VMware vCenter Path Traversal Vulnerability
added 2026-08-18
CVE-2026-22719
VMware Aria Operations — Broadcom VMware Aria Operations Command Injection Vulnerability
added 2026-03-03
CVE-2024-37079
VMware vCenter Server — Broadcom VMware vCenter Server Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability
added 2026-01-23
CVE-2025-1976
Brocade Fabric OS — Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS Code Injection Vulnerability
added 2025-04-28

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