CVE-2024-38831: VMware Aria Operations

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• VMware Aria Operations: from 8.0, before 8.18.2 (fixed in 8.18.2)
• VMware Cloud Foundation: from 4.0, up to and including 5.2

Published 2024-11-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.