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10 vulnerabilities found for open_vm_tools by vmware
CVE-2025-41244 (GCVE-0-2025-41244)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2025-09-29 16:09 – Updated: 2025-11-04 21:10
VLAI?
Title
VMSA-2025-0015: VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools updates address multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-41244,CVE-2025-41245, CVE-2025-41246)
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| VMware | VCF operations |
Affected:
9.0.x , < 9.0.1.0
(commercial)
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CVE-2023-34059 (GCVE-0-2023-34059)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2023-10-27 04:53 – Updated: 2025-03-06 15:39
VLAI?
Summary
open-vm-tools contains a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. A malicious actor with non-root privileges may be able to hijack the
/dev/uinput file descriptor allowing them to simulate user inputs.
Severity ?
7.4 (High)
CWE
- File descriptor hijack vulnerability
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| n/a | open-vm-tools |
Affected:
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CVE-2023-34058 (GCVE-0-2023-34058)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2023-10-27 04:53 – Updated: 2025-03-06 15:40
VLAI?
Summary
VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html in a target virtual machine may be able to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/d1902b0e-d479-46bf-8ac9-cee0e31e8ec0/07ce8dbd-db48-4261-9b8f-c6d3ad8ba472/vim.vm.guest.AliasManager.html .
Severity ?
7.1 (High)
CWE
- SAML Token Signature Bypass vulnerability
Assigner
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Affected:
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CVE-2023-20900 (GCVE-0-2023-20900)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2023-08-31 09:45 – Updated: 2024-08-02 09:21
VLAI?
Summary
A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html in a target virtual machine may be able to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/d1902b0e-d479-46bf-8ac9-cee0e31e8ec0/07ce8dbd-db48-4261-9b8f-c6d3ad8ba472/vim.vm.guest.AliasManager.html .
Severity ?
7.1 (High)
CWE
- SAML Token Signature Bypass vulnerability
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
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| n/a | VMware Tools |
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CVE-2009-1142 (GCVE-0-2009-1142)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2022-11-23 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-25 20:50
VLAI?
Summary
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Severity ?
6.7 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
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CVE-2025-41244 (GCVE-0-2025-41244)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-29 16:09 – Updated: 2025-11-04 21:10
VLAI?
Title
VMSA-2025-0015: VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools updates address multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-41244,CVE-2025-41245, CVE-2025-41246)
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CWE
Assigner
References
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Affected:
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CVE-2023-34059 (GCVE-0-2023-34059)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-27 04:53 – Updated: 2025-03-06 15:39
VLAI?
Summary
open-vm-tools contains a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. A malicious actor with non-root privileges may be able to hijack the
/dev/uinput file descriptor allowing them to simulate user inputs.
Severity ?
7.4 (High)
CWE
- File descriptor hijack vulnerability
Assigner
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Impacted products
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Affected:
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CVE-2023-34058 (GCVE-0-2023-34058)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-27 04:53 – Updated: 2025-03-06 15:40
VLAI?
Summary
VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html in a target virtual machine may be able to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/d1902b0e-d479-46bf-8ac9-cee0e31e8ec0/07ce8dbd-db48-4261-9b8f-c6d3ad8ba472/vim.vm.guest.AliasManager.html .
Severity ?
7.1 (High)
CWE
- SAML Token Signature Bypass vulnerability
Assigner
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Affected:
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CVE-2023-20900 (GCVE-0-2023-20900)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-31 09:45 – Updated: 2024-08-02 09:21
VLAI?
Summary
A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html in a target virtual machine may be able to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/d1902b0e-d479-46bf-8ac9-cee0e31e8ec0/07ce8dbd-db48-4261-9b8f-c6d3ad8ba472/vim.vm.guest.AliasManager.html .
Severity ?
7.1 (High)
CWE
- SAML Token Signature Bypass vulnerability
Assigner
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CVE-2009-1142 (GCVE-0-2009-1142)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-23 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-25 20:50
VLAI?
Summary
An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp files if vmware-user-suid-wrapper is setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled.
Severity ?
6.7 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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