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

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

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.

Required action (CISA)

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Notes

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

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-250, CWE-273. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38813
• KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog