CVE-2025-41244

Publication date 29 September 2025

Last updated 1 October 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
open-vm-tools	25.04 plucky	Fixed 2:12.5.0-1ubuntu0.2
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 2:12.5.0-1~ubuntu0.24.04.2
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2:12.3.5-3~ubuntu0.22.04.3
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.8+esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

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Notes

mdeslaur

This issue is present in the open-vm-tools-sdmp package which is in universe.

hlibk

The upstream fix for this CVE disables the SDMP get-versions.sh script, so version information may no longer be made available.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7785-1
Open VM Tools vulnerability
29 September 2025