CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-41246

7.6 HIGH Published 2025-09-29 Modified 2026-10-09 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2025-09-29
Last modified
2026-10-09
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-863

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.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness

References