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CVE-2025-41246

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Published: Sep 29, 2025Modified: Sep 29, 2025

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Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploitability: 1.0 / Impact: 6.0
Source: security@vmware.com (Secondary)

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.

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