MGASA-2025-0237

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Source
https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0237.html
Import Source
https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0237.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MGASA-2025-0237
Related
  • CVE-2025-41244
Published
2025-10-11T06:18:27Z
Modified
2025-10-11T05:35:28Z
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
Credits

Affected packages

Mageia:9 / open-vm-tools

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
12.3.5-2.2.mga9

Ecosystem specific 

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