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

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2024-11-20. EPSS: 17.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• VMware Cloud Foundation: from 4.0, before 5.2 (fixed in 5.2)
• VMware vCenter Server: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only

Published 2024-09-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.