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CVE-2024-38813: Privilege escalation vulnerability

7.5 CVSS

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.

Known Exploited

🚨 Marked as known exploited on June 10th, 2025 (7 days ago).

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-38813

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.5

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

Problem Types

CWE-273 Improper Check for Dropped Privileges CWE-250

Affected Products

Vendor: n/a

Product: VMware vCenter Server, VMware Cloud Foundation

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 14.58% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 94.11% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-16 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: active

SSVC Technical Impact: total

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38813
https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24968

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