VMware vCenter SMTP Header Injection in Scheduled Task Emails
CVE-2025-41250 Published on September 29, 2025
Header injection vulnerability
VMware vCenter contains an SMTP header injection vulnerability. A malicious actor with non-administrative privileges on vCenter who has permission to create scheduled tasks may be able to manipulate the notification emails sent for scheduled tasks.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-41250 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality, a high impact on integrity, and a small impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Command Injection Vulnerability?
The software constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component.
CVE-2025-41250 has been classified to as a Command Injection vulnerability or weakness.
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Affected Versions
VMware vCenter:- Version 8.0 and below 8.0 U3g is affected.
- Version 7.0 and below 7.0 U3w is affected.
- Version 9.x.x.x and below 9.0.1.0 is affected.
- Version 5.x and below 5.2.2 is affected.
- Version 4.5.x is affected.
- Version 5.x, 4.x, 3.x, 2.x is affected.
- Version 3.x, 2.x is affected.
- Version 9.x.x.x and below 9.0.1.0 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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