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
- 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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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.27% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 18% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (1)
- high[UPDATE] [high] VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, Aria Operations and Tools: Multiple vulnerabilitiescert-bund · 2026-07-24
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