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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack Vector
- local
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-267
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- VMWARE
- Published
- 9/29/2025
- Last Modified
- 11/6/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
vmware : aria_operationsvmware : cloud_foundationvmware : cloud_foundation_operationsvmware : open_vm_toolsvmware : open_vm_toolsvmware : telco_cloud_infrastructurevmware : telco_cloud_platformdebian : debian_linuxvmware : toolsvmware : tools
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