CVE-2024-38831

high

Description

VMware Aria Operations contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges can insert malicious commands into the properties file to escalate privileges to a root user on the appliance running VMware Aria Operations.

References

References
More

https://cloud.google.com/support/bulletins/index#gcp-2024-064

https://securityaffairs.com/171472/security/vmware-fixed-five-vulnerabilitiesaria-operations.html

https://www.securityweek.com/vmware-patches-high-severity-vulnerabilities-in-aria-operations/

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25199

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-11-26

Updated: 2025-05-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00099