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CVSS
High

CVE-2024-38813

PUBLISHED

Privilege escalation vulnerability

Exploited in the wild Remote No user interaction
Vendor
VMware
Product
VMware vCenter Server, VMware Cloud Foundation
Published
Sep 17, 2024
EPSS
—

Description

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.

cisa nessus_scanner

CVSS scores

CVSS v3.1 7.5 High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation status

Exploited in the wild

Recorded 2024-11-20 00:00:00 UTC · Source

SSVC decision points

Exploitation
active
Automatable
No
Technical impact
total

References

Known exploited vulnerability sources

Catalogues that list this CVE as a known exploited vulnerability.

Source Added
CISA Nov 20, 2024

Scanner integrations

Scanner Reference Detected
Nessus https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/207464 Jun 02, 2025

Timeline

  • CVE ID Reserved

  • CVE Published to Public

  • Added to KEVIntel

  • Detected by Nessus