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🛡️ ALSA-2025:17428 — open-vm-tools (CVE-2025-41244)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

Important: open-vm-tools security update

The Open Virtual Machine Tools are the open source implementation of the VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines.

Security Fix(es):

  • open-vm-tools: Local privilege escalation in open-vm-tools (CVE-2025-41244)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Affected software

ALSA-2025:17428 is recorded against 5 packages.

  • open-vm-tools (fixed in 12.5.0-1.el9_6.2)
  • open-vm-tools-desktop (fixed in 12.5.0-1.el9_6.2)
  • open-vm-tools-salt-minion (fixed in 12.5.0-1.el9_6.2)
  • open-vm-tools-sdmp (fixed in 12.5.0-1.el9_6.2)
  • open-vm-tools-test (fixed in 12.5.0-1.el9_6.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 7 October 2025 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

access.redhat.com (Advisory)
access.redhat.com (Report)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Report)
errata.almalinux.org (Advisory)

Other advisories for this package

open-vm-tools has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-10-07
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
open-vm-tools 12.5.0-1.el9_6.2
open-vm-tools-desktop 12.5.0-1.el9_6.2
open-vm-tools-salt-minion 12.5.0-1.el9_6.2
open-vm-tools-sdmp 12.5.0-1.el9_6.2
open-vm-tools-test 12.5.0-1.el9_6.2

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