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CVE-2024-38830: vmware aria_operations Improper Privilege Management

CVSS: 7.8v3.1HighAnalyzed
Published 26-11-2024Last modified 10-02-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-38830 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in vmware aria_operations. EPSS estimates a 0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 6.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.18%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 26-11-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 10-02-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

VMware Aria Operations contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges may trigger this vulnerability to escalate privileges to root user on the appliance running VMware Aria Operations.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.18%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

7%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.18% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
0.18%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Vmware3 products

1 vendor · 3 products

References

1 links