CVE-2024-38831

HIGH

VMware Aria Operations 8.0-8.18.1 - Authenticated Local Privilege Escalation via Properties File Injection

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 36.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-77
Status published
Products (2)
vmware/aria_operations 8.0 - 8.18.2
vmware/cloud_foundation 4.0 - 5.2
Published Nov 26, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026