Broadcom VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools Privilege Defined with Unsafe Actions Vulnerability
High Listed in CISA KEV
Summary
Broadcom VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools contain a privilege defined with unsafe actions 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.
In-depth triage · Auto channel
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Affected products
- Broadcom:VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools
Sources
- CISA KEV DATABASE
Original Links
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-41244 advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog kev
- https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36149 reference
Timeline
- kev_added CISA KEV
- kev_ingest CISA KEV