CVE-2024-38813highunder attackCWE-250CWE-273

CVE-2024-38813: high-severity vulnerability in VMware Cloud Foundation

Privilege escalation vulnerability

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56Vexday Risk Score

Prioritize patching. It under exploitation confirmed by CISA and has an official Brazilian government alert.

ssvc Actcvss 7.5epss 17%
from disclosure to weapon
Published on NVDSep 17
CISA KEV+64d
Official alert in Brazil

Brazil's federal government published an alert, recommendation or bulletin that cites this vulnerability.

  • CTIR Gov · ALERTA 21/2024Vulnerabilidades críticas na plataforma VMware vCenter Serverread on gov.br ↗
Source: CTIR Gov (GSI) and CISC Gov.br, under the CC BY-ND 3.0 license.
Action required by CISAfederal deadline: 2024-12-11

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

In short

A flaw in vCenter Server allows someone with network access to gain root privileges by sending a specially crafted network packet. This is critical because attackers can take complete control of the virtualization infrastructure.

Technical detail

CWE-250/273 privilege escalation in vCenter Server allows unauthenticated or low-privileged network attackers to escalate to root via a crafted network packet, requiring only network reachability to the affected service. Successful exploitation grants complete system control over the virtualization platform.

Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.

The full analysis of this CVE is available in Portuguese →

The vCenter Server contains a privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with network access to vCenter Server may trigger this vulnerability to escalate privileges to root by sending a specially crafted network packet.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
n/a · VMware Cloud Foundationn/a · VMware vCenter Server