MGASA-2025-0237

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    MGASA-2025-0237

    Published: 11 Oct 2025Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2025-41244

    Summary: Updated open-vm-tools package fixes security vulnerability

    Details: It was discovered that open-vm-tools contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges on a guest VM may exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges to root on the same VM (CVE-2025-41244).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0237.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34641, https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/29/10

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: open-vm-tools

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/open-vm-tools?arch=source&distro=mageia-9

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -12.3.5-2.2.mga9

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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