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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.6 High

CVE-2025-41246

Improper authorisation vulnerability

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
vmware

Description

VMware Tools for Windows contains an improper authorisation vulnerability due to the way it handles user access controls. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges on a guest VM, who is already authenticated through vCenter or ESX may exploit this issue to access other guest VMs. Successful exploitation requires knowledge of credentials of the targeted VMs and vCenter or ESX.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

VMware Tools

Default version status: unaffected

  • 13.x.x.x to < 13.0.5.0affected
  • 12.x.x to < 12.5.4affected
  • 11.x.xaffected

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