HIGH
Improper authorisation vulnerability
Published Sep 29, 2025
7.6
HIGHCVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.28%
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
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Affected
- 11.x.x
- ≥ 12.x.x, < 12.5.4
- ≥ 13.x.x.x, < 13.0.5.0
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No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Weaknesses (1)
References (2)
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner vmware
Published Sep 29, 2025
Updated Feb 26, 2026
Reserved Apr 16, 2025
Link CVE-2025-41246
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Sep 30, 2025
Red Hat
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GitHub
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