[UPDATE] [high] VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, Aria Operations and Tools: Multiple vulnerabilities

highpublic exploitCVE-2025-41244 CVE-2025-41245 CVE-2025-41246

An attacker can exploit multiple vulnerabilities in VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vSphere, VMware Aria Operations, and VMware Tools to gain elevated privileges – even administrative rights – and disclose confidential information.

CSIRTS triage

vendor: VMware product: Cloud Foundation, vSphere, Aria Operations, Tools Privilege escalation Information disclosure

What: Multiple vulnerabilities allow an attacker to gain elevated privileges and disclose confidential information.
Who is affected: Deployments of VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, Aria Operations, and VMware Tools.
Urgency: Remediation is urgent due to high severity and confirmed exploitation.
Action: Apply the latest security updates from VMware.

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Details

Source: CERT-Bund (BSI) Security Advisories (DE · national-cert · site)
Severity: high
Published: 2026-07-24
Exploitation: Not in CISA KEV at last sync
Language: Machine-translated to English — verify against the original

Original advisory: https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvisory?name=WID-SEC-2025-2153

Exploitation outlook

EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.

Moderate exploitation riskCVE-2025-412447.9% 30-day exploitation probability. Patch within normal cadence, watch for KEV listing. Riskier than 94% of all scored CVEs.
Low exploitation riskCVE-2025-412450.58% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 45% of all scored CVEs.
Low exploitation riskCVE-2025-412460.27% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 18% of all scored CVEs.

Referenced CVEs

CVE	CSIRTS overview	External
CVE-2025-41244	coverage & exploitation status	NVD · CVE.org
CVE-2025-41245	coverage & exploitation status	NVD · CVE.org
CVE-2025-41246	coverage & exploitation status	NVD · CVE.org

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