# CVE-2025-41244 — VMware VCF operations

**CISA KEV**

> As of 2026-02-26, CVE-2025-41244 is a HIGH-severity vulnerability in VMware VCF operations, CVSS v3.1 7.8, EPSS 8.4% (94.8th percentile). It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-10-30), with a US federal remediation deadline of 2025-11-20. Threadlinqs Intelligence links 1 tracked threat campaign to CVE-2025-41244, most recently “Sen. Wyden Urges Binding Federal Mandate to Purge Internet-Facing Legacy VPNs for Zero-Trust Remote Access”.

**Last updated:** 2026-02-26

## 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](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/267.html). 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](https://github.com/NULL200OK/CVE-2025-41244) (github)
- [rxerium/CVE-2025-41244](https://github.com/rxerium/CVE-2025-41244) (github)
- [haspiranti/CVE-2025-41244-PoC](https://github.com/haspiranti/CVE-2025-41244-PoC) (github)
- [trickest/cve](https://github.com/trickest/cve/blob/main/2025/CVE-2025-41244.md) (trickest)

## Affected products and versions

- [VMware](https://intel.threadlinqs.com/vendors/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.

- [Sen. Wyden Urges Binding Federal Mandate to Purge Internet-Facing Legacy VPNs for Zero-Trust Remote Access](https://intel.threadlinqs.com/threat/TL-2026-1774) — MEDIUM · 2026-07-27

## Sources

Enriched from CVE.org, FIRST EPSS, CISA KEV, GitHub Security Advisories, public proof-of-concept repositories. Last verified by Threadlinqs on 2026-10-10.

**Other references**

- [support.broadcom.com](http://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/support-content-view/-/support-content/Security%20Advisories/VMSA-2025-0015--VMware-Aria-Operations-and-VMware-Tools-updates-address-multiple-vulnerabilities--CVE-2025-41244-CVE-2025-41245--CVE-2025-41246-/36149)

Canonical: https://intel.threadlinqs.com/cve/CVE-2025-41244
Full detection coverage and IOCs for threats exploiting CVE-2025-41244 via the Threadlinqs MCP server (Purple tier): https://intel.threadlinqs.com/mcp