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CVE-2024-38830: Local privilege escalation vulnerability

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-11-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

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.

Affected products

• VMware Aria Operations: from 8.0 before 8.18.2 — fixed in 8.18.2
• VMware Cloud Foundation: from 4.0 through 5.2
• VMware Aria Operations: from 8.0 before 8.18.2 — fixed in 8.18.2
• VMware Aria Operations: from 8.x before 8.18.2 — fixed in 8.18.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: VMware Aria Operations 8.18.2; VMware Aria Operations 8.18.2; VMware Aria Operations 8.18.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/25199

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