CVE detail

CVE-2024-38813 — VMware vCenter Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Published 2024-11-20 · Modified 2024-11-20 · Source kev

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

n/a

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.1736

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

97.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

LISTED

CISA KEV

due 2024-12-11

Description

VMware vCenter contains an improper check for dropped privileges vulnerability. This vulnerability could allow an attacker with network access to the vCenter Server to escalate privileges to root by sending a specially crafted packet.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

cvedb.io · NVD · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS · vendor advisories (CVE Program List v5). Informational only, no warranty — verify every remediation against the vendor advisory before acting on it. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD, CISA, FIRST.org or any vendor named. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.