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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
May 18, 2026

Description

VMware Tools for Windows contains an improper authorisation vulnerability due to the way it handles user access controls. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges on a guest VM, who is already authenticated through vCenter or ESX may exploit this issue to access other guest VMs. Successful exploitation requires knowledge of credentials of the targeted VMs and vCenter or ESX.

Solution

vmware-tools-upgrade-latest
Title
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