CVE-2024-38831 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting VMware Aria Operations and VMware Cloud Foundation. An attacker with local administrative privileges can inject malicious commands into a properties file, escalating their access to root. Rated 7.8 HIGH on CVSS, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to high impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness of its potential.
| 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.