Open vm tools

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Open vm tools, a product in the cloud saas space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

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The 5 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Open vm tools.

• CVE-2025-41244VMSA-2025-0015: VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools updates address multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-41244,CVE-2025-41245, CVE-2025-41246)KEV7.8Sep 29, 2025
• CVE-2023-34059open-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 the /dev/uinput file descriptor all...7.4Oct 27, 2023
• CVE-2023-34058VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-securit...7.1Oct 27, 2023
• CVE-2023-20900A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html  in a target virtu...7.1Aug 31, 2023
• CVE-2009-1142An issue was discovered in open-vm-tools 2009.03.18-154848. Local users can gain privileges via a symlink attack on /tmp files if vmware-user-suid-wrapper is setuid root and the ChmodChownDirectory...6.7Nov 23, 2022