CVE-2024-38813

Privilege escalation vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Sep 17, 2024
Updated: Oct 21, 2025
Reserved: Jun 19, 2024

Description

The vCenter Server contains a privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with network access to vCenter Server may trigger this vulnerability to escalate privileges to root by sending a specially crafted network packet.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	vmware

Weaknesses

CWE-273 Improper Check for Dropped Privileges
CWE-250

Affected Products

Product	Versions
VMware vCenter Servern/a	8.0 to before 8.0 U3bAffected 7.0 to before 7.0 U3sAffected
VMware Cloud Foundationn/a	5.xAffected 4.xAffected

References

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24968
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2024-38813government-resource

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