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CVE-2025-41244 is a local privilege-escalation vulnerability in VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools service-discovery functionality, including open-vm-tools. In affected managed guest VMs, service discovery identifies listening services and executes matched binaries to obtain version information in a privileged context. Overly broad regular-expression matching can select an attacker-controlled binary placed in a user-writable location rather than the intended system binary. A local non-administrative user can arrange for the binary to have a listening socket and obtain execution as root or under the privileged configured service-discovery account. Both credential-based and credential-less Service Discovery Management Pack (SDMP) modes are affected.
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A critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools, reported as exploited for an extended period.
A high-severity vulnerability affecting VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools that CISA has tagged as actively exploited.
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