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Multiple Vulnerabilities in VMware Products 

Indian – Computer Emergency Response Team (https://www.cert-in.org.in)

Severity Rating: HIGH

Software Affected

VMware Aria Operations 8.x,

VMware Tools 12.x.x, 11.x.x,13.x.x

VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x, 4.x, 9.x.x.x, 13.x.x.x

VMware vSphere Foundation 9.x.x.x, 13.x.x.x

VMware Telco Cloud Platform 5.x, 4.x

VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure 3.x, 2.x

Overview

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in VMware products, which could allow an attacker to gain unauthorised access, escalate privileges and gain access to credentials on the targeted system.

Target Audience:

Enterprises and large organisations, cloud service providers and industries with IT environments utilising VMware products.

Risk Assessment:

Risk of full system compromise, sensitive information disclosure and lateral movement.

Impact Assessment:

Potential for local privilege escalation, disclosure of sensitive information and unauthorised access.

Description

VMware provides virtualisation software solutions that enable organisations to create and manage virtual machines (VMs), allowing multiple operating systems to run on a single physical machine.

These vulnerabilities affect VMware products due to issues in VMware Tools, Aria Operations. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by sending specially crafted requests.

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow the attacker to escalate privileges to gain unauthorised access, escalate privileges and gain access to credentials on the targeted system.

Note: CVE-2025-41244 is being actively exploited in the wild.

Solution

Apply appropriate updates as mentioned by the vendor:

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36149

Vendor Information

VMware

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/security-advisory

References

VMware

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36149

CVE Name

CVE-2025-41244

CVE-2025-41245

CVE-2025-41246

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CERT-In

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PGP Key information:

https://www.cert-in.org.in/s2cMainServlet?pageid=CONTACTUS

Postal address:

Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In)

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

Government of India

Electronics Niketan

6, C.G.O. Complex

New Delhi-110 003

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