🛡️ SUSE-SU-2025:20853-1 — open-vm-tools (CVE-2025-41244)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV

N/A

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Security update for open-vm-tools

This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues:

Update to open-vm-tools 13.0.5 based on build 24915695. (bsc#1250692):

Please refer to the Release Notes at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-13.0.5/ReleaseNotes.md.

The granular changes that have gone into the open-vm-tools 13.0.5 release are in the ChangeLog at

https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-13.0.5/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog.

There are no new features in the open-vm-tools 13.0.5 release. This is

primarily a maintenance release that addresses a security issue.

This release resolves and includes the patch for CVE-2025-41244. For more

information on this vulnerability and its impact on Broadcom products,

see VMSA-2025-0015.

A minor enhancement has been made for Guest OS Customization. The

DeployPkg plugin has been updated to use "systemctl reboot", if available.

For a more complete list of issues addressed in this release, see the

What's New and Resolved Issues section of the Release Notes.

Affected software

SUSE-SU-2025:20853-1 is recorded against 1 package.

open-vm-tools (fixed in 13.0.5-1.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 October 2025 and last revised on 23 March 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

www.suse.com (Advisory)
bugzilla.suse.com (Report)
bugzilla.suse.com (Report)
www.suse.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown

CVSS Score N/A

CVSS Vector N/A

CWE N/A

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2025-10-17

Updated 2026-08-20

Modified 2026-03-23

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
open-vm-tools	—	13.0.5-1.1

References

ADVISORY https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2025/suse-su-202520853-1/

REPORT https://bugzilla.suse.com/1250373

REPORT https://bugzilla.suse.com/1250692

WEB https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-41244

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