CVE-2025-41246: VMware Tools

High severity, CVSS 7.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• VMware Tools: from 13.x.x.x, before 13.0.5.0 (fixed in 13.0.5.0); from 12.x.x, before 12.5.4 (fixed in 12.5.4); version 11.x.x only

Published 2025-09-29. Last modified 2026-10-09.