Vulnerabilites related to VMware - Tools
CVE-2025-41246 (GCVE-0-2025-41246)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-29 15:57
Modified
2025-09-30 03:55
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
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CVE-2025-41239 (GCVE-0-2025-41239)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-15 18:35
Modified
2025-07-15 18:51
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-908 - Use of Uninitialized Resource
Summary
VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and VMware Tools contains an information disclosure vulnerability due to the usage of an uninitialised memory in vSockets. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from processes communicating with vSockets.
References
Impacted products
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