vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2025-41244: ELSA-2025-17428: open-vm-tools security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 29, 2025
Added
Oct 9, 2025
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

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.
A flaw was found in VMWare open-vm-tools. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges on a guest VM may exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges to root on the same VM.

Solutions

oracle-linux-upgrade-open-vm-toolsoracle-linux-upgrade-open-vm-tools-desktoporacle-linux-upgrade-open-vm-tools-salt-minionoracle-linux-upgrade-open-vm-tools-sdmporacle-linux-upgrade-open-vm-tools-test
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