Case Study: High-Severity VMware Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day

Published: 2025-10-06 02:51:49 Type: Vulnerability

📊Incident Overview

A newly patched VMware vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-41244, has been exploited as a zero-day for code execution with elevated privileges. The flaw affects VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools, allowing attackers to escalate privileges to root on managed VMs.

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