What is CVE-2025-41244?
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 record classifies CVE-2025-41244 under weakness class CWE-267. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw requires local access to the host, needs low-privilege credentials, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 6 affected-product entries are recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 381 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v3.1 base score
- 7.8 — HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS (FIRST)
- 8.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94.8% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Listed since 2025-10-30, federal remediation deadline 2025-11-20
- Threadlinqs priority
- 9/10 — CISA KEV-listed, which Threadlinqs floors at 9
- Published
- 2025-09-29, last modified 2026-02-26
Is CVE-2025-41244 being exploited?
CISA added CVE-2025-41244 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-10-30, which means the agency holds evidence of exploitation in the wild; US federal civilian agencies had to remediate it by 2025-11-20 under BOD 22-01. Weaponised exploit code for CVE-2025-41244 is publicly available. 4 public proof-of-concept repositories are tracked for this identifier. It currently carries a trending score of 47 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
- NULL200OK/CVE-2025-41244 (github)
- rxerium/CVE-2025-41244 (github)
- haspiranti/CVE-2025-41244-PoC (github)
- trickest/cve (trickest)
Affected products and versions
- VMware: VCF operations, tools, Aria Operations, Cloud Foundation, Telco Cloud Platform, Telco Cloud Infrastructure
How to fix CVE-2025-41244
Because CVE-2025-41244 is KEV-listed, US federal civilian agencies were required to apply the vendor fix, or stop using the product, by 2025-11-20. No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2025-41244 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat the products listed above as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2025-41244
1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2025-41244, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, FIRST EPSS, CISA KEV, GitHub Security Advisories, public proof-of-concept repositories. Last verified by Threadlinqs on .