CVE-2025-41244

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...

CVE-2025-22247 affecting package open-vm-tools for versions less than 12.3.5-2

CVE-2025-22247 affecting package open-vm-tools for versions less than 12.3.5-2. A patched version of the package is available...

CVE-2025-22247 affecting package open-vm-tools for versions less than 11.3.0-4

CVE-2025-22247 affecting package open-vm-tools for versions less than 11.3.0-4. A patched version of the package is available...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-7714-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-7714-1 open-vm-tools vulnerabilities

Matthias Gerstner discovered that Open VM Tools incorrectly handled file descriptors when dropping privileges. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to hijack /dev/uinput and simulate user inputs. CVE-2023-34059 Dolev Farhi discovered that Open VM Tools incorrectly handled certain file...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-34059

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - 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...

Fedora 42 : open-vm-tools (2025-23653a72d9)

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-23653a72d9 advisory. Update to version 12.5.2. Fixes CVE-2025-22247 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note that...

CLSA-2025-1751133361 open-vm-tools: Fix of CVE-2025-22247

CVE-2025-22247: prevent usage of illegal characters in user names and file paths...

SUSE-SU-2025:20452-1 Security update for open-vm-tools

This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues: - Updated to 12.5.2: CVE-2025-22247: Fixed Insecure file handling bsc1243106...

Security update for open-vm-tools

This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues: Updated to 12.5.2: CVE-2025-22247: Fixed Insecure file handling bsc1243106 Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST onlineupdate or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run th...

CLSA-2025-1750444475 open-vm-tools: Fix of 2 CVEs

CVE-2023-34058: don't accept tokens with unrelated certs - CVE-2023-34059: fix file descriptor vuln by moving privilege drop from suidWrapper to vmtoolsd...

TencentOS Server 3: open-vm-tools (TSSA-2023:0226)

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 3 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TSSA-2023:0226 advisory. Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:...

TencentOS Server 2: open-vm-tools (TSSA-2023:0123)

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 2 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TSSA-2023:0123 advisory. Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities:...

TencentOS Server 3: open-vm-tools (TSSA-2022:0159)

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 3 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TSSA-2022:0159 advisory. Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:...

SUSE-SU-2025:20379-1 Security update for open-vm-tools

This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues: - Updated to 12.5.2: CVE-2025-22247: Fixed insecure file handling bsc1243106 - Fixed gcc15 compile time error bsc1241938...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2025:1565-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-7508-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-7508-2 open-vm-tools vulnerability

USN-7508-1 fixed a vulnerability in Open VM Tools. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Original advisory details: It was discovered that Open VM Tools incorrectly handled certain file operations. An attacker in a guest could use this issue to...

USN-7508-2: Open VM Tools vulnerability

USN-7508-1 fixed a vulnerability in Open VM Tools. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Original advisory details: It was discovered that Open VM Tools incorrectly handled certain file operations. An attacker in a guest could use this issue to...

Amazon Linux 2023 : open-vm-tools, open-vm-tools-desktop, open-vm-tools-devel (ALAS2023-2025-982)

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2025-982 advisory. VMware Tools contains an insecure file handling vulnerability. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges on a guest VM may tamper the local files to trigger insecure file operations within th...