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High 1 exploited CVE RLSA-2025:17428 1 CVE

Important: open-vm-tools security update

Published Oct 18, 2025 · Updated Oct 18, 2025

Ecosystem: Rocky Linux

Summary

The Open Virtual Machine Tools are the open source implementation of the VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines.

Security Fix(es):

* open-vm-tools: Local privilege escalation in open-vm-tools (CVE-2025-41244)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 9 open-vm-tools 0:12.5.0-1.el9_6.2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.8
    CVE-2025-41244 Exploited Public exploit EPSS 16%

    VMSA-2025-0015: VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools updates address multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-41244,CVE-2025-41245, CVE-2025-41246)

    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 explo…

    VMware VMware Aria Operations VMware Telco Cloud Platform VMware Cloud Foundation Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux
    KEV Oct 30, 2025

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2397752