VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools contain a local privilege escalation 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.
Data as of 2 Nov 2026 · NVD, CISA KEV, EPSS
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The access level the source grants already meets or exceeds the access level the destination requires — the position carries over.
Roundcube Webmail before 1.5.10 and 1.6.x before 1.6.11 allows remote code execution by authenticated users because the _from parameter in a URL is n…
The access level the source grants already meets or exceeds the access level the destination requires — the position carries over.
XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. In affected versions this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker has suffi…
The source lands the attacker on the host (code execution or an established foothold), which satisfies the destination's requirement for local access.
The (1) EPHEMERAL, (2) HTTPS, (3) MVG, (4) MSL, (5) TEXT, (6) SHOW, (7) WIN, and (8) PLT coders in ImageMagick before 6.9.3-10 and 7.x before 7.0.1-1…
The source lands the attacker on the host (code execution or an established foothold), which satisfies the destination's requirement for local access.
Improper neutralization of user data in the DjVu file format in ExifTool versions 7.44 and up allows arbitrary code execution when parsing the malici…
The source lands the attacker on the host (code execution or an established foothold), which satisfies the destination's requirement for local access.
Sudo before 1.9.5p2 contains an off-by-one error that can result in a heap-based buffer overflow, which allows privilege escalation to root via "sudo…
Modelled plausible chaining potential derived from public CVE metadata (CVSS, CWE, CPE). Not a confirmed real-world exploit chain and contains no exploitation detail. For research and awareness only.
Methodology · Interactive explorer · JSON: /cve/CVE-2025-41244