vulnerability

VMware VMware Tools: CVE-2025-41246: VMware Tools improper authorisation vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 29, 2025
Added
Sep 30, 2025
Modified
Oct 30, 2025

Description

VMware Tools for Windows contains an improper authorisation vulnerability due to the way it handles user access controls. Broadcom has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Important severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 7.6.

Solution

vmware-tools-upgrade-latest
Title
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