Bug 2397752 (CVE-2025-41244)
| Summary: | CVE-2025-41244 open-vm-tools: Local privilege escalation in open-vm-tools | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | michael.h.hall-1, security-response-team |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | --- | |
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A flaw was found in VMWare open-vm-tools. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges on a guest Virtual Machine (VM) could exploit this vulnerability to gain root privileges on the VM. The issue lies in the service-discovery plugin logic, which can execute attacker-controlled binaries from writable paths such as /tmp. Exploitation requires the open-vm-tools-sdmp package to be installed and guest service discovery to be enabled.
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| Last Closed: | Type: | --- | |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Deadline: | 2025-09-29 | ||
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Description
OSIDB Bzimport
2025-09-24 03:28:02 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Via RHSA-2025:17429 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17429 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Via RHSA-2025:17428 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17428 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions Via RHSA-2025:17446 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17446 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support Via RHSA-2025:17445 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17445 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions Via RHSA-2025:17452 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17452 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On Via RHSA-2025:17512 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17512 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service Via RHSA-2025:17510 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17510 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service Via RHSA-2025:17511 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17511 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2025:17509 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17509 |