vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-7785-1 (CVE-2025-41244): Open VM Tools vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 29, 2025
Added
Sep 30, 2025
Modified
Nov 4, 2025

Description

It was discovered that Open VM Tools incorrectly handled permissions with
version checking. An attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate
privileges inside a virtual machine.

This update disables the SDMP get-versions.sh script, so version
information may no longer be made available.

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-open-vm-tools
Title
NEW

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