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CVE-2025-41245· NVD / CVE Program· CNA vmware

VMSA-2025-0015: VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools updates address multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-41244,CVE-2025-41245, CVE-2025-41246)

VMware Aria Operations contains an information disclosure vulnerability. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges in Aria Operations may exploit this vulnerability to disclose credentials of other users of Aria Operations.

MediumCVSS 4.9 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Sep 29, 2025
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.6% · 47th percentile
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Action score

19

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
19 / 40 · 4.9 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.6%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · vmware
4.9
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Affected systems

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Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (vmware). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • VMware VMware Aria Operations

    • 8.18.x and later · before 8.18.5affected · commercial

  • VMware VMware Cloud Foundation

    • 5.x and later · before 8.18.5affected · commercial
    • 4.x and later · before 8.18.5affected · commercial

  • VMware VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure

    • 3.x and later · before 8.18.5affected · commercial
    • 2.x and later · before 8.18.5affected · commercial

  • VMware VMware Telco Cloud Platform

    • 5.x and later · before 8.18.5affected · commercial
    • 4.x and later · before 8.18.5affected · commercial

Same product

vmware: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2025-22231VMware Aria Operations updates address a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-22231)
    31Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
VMware VMware Aria Operations8.18.5Vendor (CNA)
VMware VMware Cloud Foundation8.18.5Vendor (CNA)
VMware VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure8.18.5Vendor (CNA)
VMware VMware Telco Cloud Platform8.18.5Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • Administrator privileges are required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
none
Availability
none
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-1188 · Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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