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CVE-2025-41244

High CVSS 7.8 Known exploited

Published 2025-09-29 · last changed 2026-06-17 · added to CISA KEV 2025-10-30

This one is being exploited in the wild.

CISA added CVE-2025-41244 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-10-30. Federal agencies are required to remediate it on a deadline. If you have affected machines, this is the class of finding that moves ahead of the rest of the queue.

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2025-41244, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

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.

Sources

CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H