CVE-2024-38831 — Local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2024-38831)

CVE-2024-38831

Local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2024-38831) PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
VMware / VMware Aria Operations	affected 8.x before 8.18.2

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

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

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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