VMware Aria Operations Local Privilege Escalation to Root on Appliance
CVE-2024-38830 Published on November 26, 2024
Local privilege escalation vulnerability
VMware Aria Operations contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges may trigger this vulnerability to escalate privileges to root user on the appliance running VMware Aria Operations.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-38830 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
Improper Privilege Management
The software does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-38830
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Affected Versions
VMware Aria Operations:- Version 8.x and below 8.18.2 is affected.
- Version 8.0 and below 8.18.2 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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