CVE-2025-41250 Header injection vulnerability
A malicious actor with limited privileges can manipulate SMTP headers in vCenter notification emails, potentially altering email content or metadata.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-41250?
CVE-2025-41250 is a high-severity vulnerability in VMware Cloud Foundation, published on 29 Sep 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-77
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-41250?
How do I fix CVE-2025-41250?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-41250 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-41250 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-41250 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-5qfp-g44c-j8xm.