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CVE-2024-38831: Local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2024-38831)
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% 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-77
Description
VMware Aria Operations contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges can insert malicious commands into the properties file to escalate privileges to a 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
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