CVE-2024-38831

Local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2024-38831)

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Nov 26, 2024
Updated
Nov 26, 2024
Reserved
Jun 19, 2024

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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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hvmware

Weaknesses

  • CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
VMware Aria OperationsVMware
  • 8.x to before 8.18.2Affected

References

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