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Improper authorisation vulnerability

Published Sep 29, 2025

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

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

References (2)

Change history (0)

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Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED
Assigner vmware
Published Sep 29, 2025
Updated Feb 26, 2026
Reserved Apr 16, 2025

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated Sep 30, 2025

NVD

Status Deferred
Modified Jun 17, 2026

Red Hat

No data

ENISA EUVD

Assigner vmware
Published Sep 29, 2025
Updated Feb 26, 2026

GitHub

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