Description

VMware Avi Load Balancer contains a privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with admin privileges on VMware Avi Load Balancer can create, modify, execute and delete files as a root user on the host system.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-22264

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.2

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

Affected Products

Vendor: VMware

Product: VMware Avi Load Balancer

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.49% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 64.4% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-25 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: total

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22264
https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24219

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