Summary
Broadcom VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools contain a privilege defined with unsafe actions vulnerability. A malicious local actor with non-administrative privileges having access to a VM with VMware Tools installed and managed by Aria Operations with SDMP enabled may exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges to root on the same VM.
- Vendor
- Broadcom
- Product
- VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools
- Added to KEV
- Oct 30, 2025
- Remediation due
- Nov 20, 2025 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Not known
- Weakness
- CWE-267
- EPSS
- 16.4% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References