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Attackers can exploit CVE-2025-41244, a local privilege escalation vulnerability in VMware Tools' `vmtoolsd` service and its `get-versions.sh` script on Linux, by manipulating the `PATH` environment variable to execute malicious binaries with elevated privileges when the service attempts to retrieve version information, potentially leading to a root shell.