CVE-2025-41244

high KEV

Published 2025-10-07 · Modified 2025-10-13

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

9.5

Description

Important: open-vm-tools security update

CISA KEV

Vendor: Broadcom
Product: VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools
Due date: 2025-11-20

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

99%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-17428.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2025-17509.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2397752

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17509

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cisa-kev — https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36149 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-41244

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-41244

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: rocky — https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:17428

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-41244.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: rocky — https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:17509

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: redhat — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17428

Exploits

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
rhel	9	fixed
rocky	8	fixed
sles		affected
rocky	9	fixed
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2:12.2.0-1+deb12u4`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2:11.2.5-2+deb11u5`
debian	forky	fixed	`2:13.0.5-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`2:13.0.5-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2:12.5.0-2+deb13u1`

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.