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CVE-2024-38831

Nov. 26, 2024, 3:15 p.m.

CVSS Score

7.8 / 10

Product(s) Impacted

VMware Aria Operations

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.

Weaknesses

CWE-77
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component.

CWE ID: 77

Date

Published: Nov. 26, 2024, 12:15 p.m.

Last Modified: Nov. 26, 2024, 3:15 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security@vmware.com

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score
7.8
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
Base Severity
HIGH
CVSS Vector String

The CVSS vector string provides an in-depth view of the vulnerability metrics.

View Vector String

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

References