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Vmware Open VM Tools: vulnerabilities and CVEs
Vmware Open VM Tools has 5 published vulnerabilities, 0 of them in the last 12 months. 0 are rated critical and 1 are listed by CISA as actively exploited.
CVEs5
Last 12 months0
Critical0
Actively exploited1
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🔴 Actively exploited (CISA KEV)
| CVE | Severity | EPSS | Active exploitation | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-41244 | High (7.8) | 8.4% | ⚠ Active exploitation | Sep 29, 2025 | 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… |
Latest vulnerabilities
| CVE | Severity | EPSS | Active exploitation | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-41244 | High (7.8) | 8.4% | ⚠ Active exploitation | Sep 29, 2025 | 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… |
| CVE-2023-34059 | High (7) | 0.40% | — | Oct 27, 2023 | open-vm-tools contains a file descriptor hijack vulnerability in the vmware-user-suid-wrapper. A malicious actor with non-root privileges may be able to hijack the /dev/uinput file descriptor allowing them to simulate… |
| CVE-2023-34058 | High (7.5) | 0.67% | — | Oct 27, 2023 | VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges… |
| CVE-2023-20900 | High (7.5) | 1.5% | — | Aug 31, 2023 | A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html in a target virtual machine may be able to… |
| CVE-2009-1142 | Medium (6.7) | 0.28% | — | Nov 23, 2022 | An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp files if vmware-user-suid-wrapper is setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory function is enabled. |