CVE-2024-38814 is a high-severity authenticated SQL injection vulnerability affecting VMware HCX. A non-administrator, authenticated user can exploit this flaw by crafting special SQL queries, potentially leading to unauthorized remote code execution on the HCX manager. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can result in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness. VMware has released updates to remediate this issue.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 4.8.0, <= 4.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vmware_hcx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 4.9.0, <= 4.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vmware_hcx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vmware_hcx:4.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.