vulnerability

VMware vCenter Server: CVE-2024-38813 (VMSA-2024-0019)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 17, 2024
Added
Sep 18, 2024
Modified
Apr 15, 2026

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.

Solution

vmware-vcenter-server-upgrade-latest
Title
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