{"id":66558,"date":"2025-08-04T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=66558"},"modified":"2025-08-03T15:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:08:19","slug":"vmware-vcenter-vulnerability-cve-2025-41241","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vmware-vcenter-vulnerability-cve-2025-41241\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware vCenter vulnerability CVE-2025-41241"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66563 size-full\" title=\"vmware-vcenter-vulnerability-cve-2025-41241-01\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/vmware-vcenter-vulnerability-cve-2025-41241-01.jpg\" alt=\"vmware-vcenter-vulnerability-cve-2025-41241-01\" width=\"602\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A <strong>denial of service vulnerability<\/strong>, identified as <a href=\"https:\/\/support.broadcom.com\/web\/ecx\/support-content-notification\/-\/external\/content\/SecurityAdvisories\/0\/35964\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CVE-2025-41241<\/a>, has been discovered within <a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vcenter-server-backup-best-practices\/\">VMware vCenter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_9606c2bfa638a2fc\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel stronger enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Broadcom has evaluated this issue as having a <b>moderate severity<\/b> rating, with a CVSSv3 base <strong>score of 4.4<\/strong>. While this isn't a high-severity critical flaw, it's still an issue that could lead to significant operational disruptions if left unpatched.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_7a6aca3c86ccc2cd\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel stronger enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<h2>Denial of Service vulnerability (CVE-2025-41241)<\/h2>\n<p>To trigger this denial of service condition, an attacker would <strong>need to be an authenticated user<\/strong> with specific privileges within vCenter. Specifically, they would need permission to <strong>perform API calls for guest OS customization<\/strong>. Once they have this access, they could exploit the flaw to create a denial of service condition, which would disrupt the availability of your vCenter services.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The fix for this vulnerability is already available. To resolve the CVE-2025-41241 vulnerability, apply the patches listed in the <b>Fixed Version<\/b> column of the <b>Response Matrix<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66565 size-large\" title=\"vmware-vcenter-vulnerability-cve-2025-41241-02\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/vmware-vcenter-vulnerability-cve-2025-41241-02-600x269.jpg\" alt=\"vmware-vcenter-vulnerability-cve-2025-41241-02\" width=\"600\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>VMware vCenter fixes<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/techdocs.broadcom.com\/us\/en\/vmware-cis\/vsphere\/vsphere\/8-0\/release-notes\/vcenter-server-update-and-patch-release-notes\/vsphere-vcenter-server-80u3g-release-notes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VMware vCenter 8.0U3g<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/techdocs.broadcom.com\/us\/en\/vmware-cis\/vsphere\/vsphere\/7-0\/release-notes\/vcenter-server-update-and-patch-releases\/vsphere-vcenter-server-70u3v-release-notes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VMware vCenter 7.0U3v<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Applying this patch is strongly recommended to <strong>prevent any potential disruptions<\/strong> to your <a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/upgrade-vcenter-server-from-7-0-3-to-8-0-2\/\">vCenter<\/a> environment. Staying proactive with security updates is the best defense against these kinds of issues.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"signature\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/firma.jpg\" alt=\"signature\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A denial of service vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-41241, has been discovered within VMware vCenter. Broadcom has evaluated this issue as having a moderate severity rating, with a CVSSv3 base score of 4.4. While this isn't a high-severity critical flaw, it's still an issue that could lead to significant operational disruptions if left unpatched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","twitter_113568041_113568041":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"facebook_2879994398731222_234218296615646","service":"facebook","timestamp":1756882884,"status":"success"},{"account":"twitter_113568041_113568041","service":"twitter","timestamp":1756882945,"status":"success"},{"account":"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc","service":"linkedin","timestamp":1756882976,"status":"success"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"done","footnotes":""},"categories":[903,2701],"tags":[2990,2989,2974,583],"class_list":["post-66558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vmware-en","category-vsphere-en","tag-cve-2025-41241","tag-denial-of-service","tag-security-advisory","tag-vcenter-en","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}