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high7.8

CVE-2024-38831

VMware Aria Operations contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability.

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
VmwareAria Operations
from 8.0 before 8.18.2
VmwareCloud Foundation
from 4.0 through 5.2

Weakness classification

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