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CVE-2025-41246

Improper authorisation vulnerability PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
VMware / Toolsaffected 13.x.x.x before 13.0.5.0; affected 12.x.x before 12.5.4; affected 11.x.x

CWE

CWE-863

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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