CVE-2025-41246

Improper authorisation vulnerability

At a glance

Severity
HIGH 7.6
EPSS
EPSS 0.28 % · percentile 20 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
vmware
NVD status
Deferred

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.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.6CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hvmware
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.6CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · security@vmware.com (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
VMware · Toolsaffected 13.x.x.x < 13.0.5.0 ; affected 12.x.x < 12.5.4 ; affected 11.x.x

References

Sources

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