CVE-2024-38813 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2024-38813

Privilege escalation vulnerability

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

VMware vCenter Server, VMware Cloud Foundation
Vulnerable Versions:
8.0, 7.0, 5.x, 4.x

Timeline

Official Publish: September 17th, 2024
Last Modified: October 21st, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)