CVE-2024-37081

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-06-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-556

Description

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.

Affected products

VMware Cloud Foundation: from 4.0 before 5.2 — fixed in 5.2
VMware vCenter Server: 8.0, 8.0-a, 8.0-b, 8.0-c, 8.0-update1, 8.0-update1a (+39)
VMware Cloud Foundation: from 4.0 before 6.0 — fixed in 6.0
VMware vCenter Server: from 8.0 before 8.0u2d — fixed in 8.0u2d
VMware Cloud Foundation: 5.x, 4.x
VMware vCenter Server: from 8.0 before 8.0 U2d; from 7.0 before 7.0 U3r — fixed in 8.0 U2d, 7.0 U3r

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2; VMware Cloud Foundation 6.0; VMware vCenter Server 8.0u2d; VMware vCenter Server 8.0 U2d, 7.0 U3r. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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