vCenter Server Appliance LPE via Sudo Misconfig
CVE-2024-37081 Published on June 18, 2024
The vCenter Server contains multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities due to misconfiguration of sudo. An authenticated local user with non-administrative privileges may exploit these issues to elevate privileges to root on vCenter Server Appliance.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-37081 can be exploited with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. Public availability of a proof of concept (POC) exploit exists for CVE-2024-37081. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
ASP.NET Misconfiguration: Use of Identity Impersonation
Configuring an ASP.NET application to run with impersonated credentials may give the application unnecessary privileges. The use of impersonated credentials allows an ASP.NET application to run with either the privileges of the client on whose behalf it is executing or with arbitrary privileges granted in its configuration.
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Exploit Probability
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