CVE-2024-38830 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in VMware Aria Operations and Cloud Foundation. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges can exploit this flaw to gain root access on the affected appliance. Rated with a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability is easily exploitable locally with low complexity, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, indicating no active exploitation. However, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 8.0, < 8.18.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:aria_operations:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 4.0, <= 5.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/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, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.