CVE-2025-41225

VMware vCenter Server authenticated command-execution vulnerability

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 8.8
EPSS: EPSS 0.26 % · percentile 17 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2025-05-20
Updated: 2025-06-24
Assigner: vmware
NVD status: Deferred

Description

The vCenter Server contains an authenticated command-execution vulnerability. A malicious actor with privileges to create or modify alarms and run script action may exploit this issue to run arbitrary commands on the vCenter Server.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	vmware
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · security@vmware.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-78

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-15833
GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-41225

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2025-AVI-0430 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected products

Product	Versions
VMware · vCenter Server	affected 8.0 < 8.0 U3e ; affected 7.0 < 7.0 U3v
VMware · Cloud Foundation	affected 5.x, 4.5.x
VMware · Telco Cloud Platform	affected 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x
VMware · Telco Cloud Infrastructure	affected 3.x, 2.x

References

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25717

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD