CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-38813

Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Published: Sep 17, 2024 | Modified: Nov 22, 2024
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness

The product performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update1 (including) 7.0-update1 (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update1a (including) 7.0-update1a (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update1c (including) 7.0-update1c (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update1d (including) 7.0-update1d (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update2 (including) 7.0-update2 (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update2a (including) 7.0-update2a (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update2b (including) 7.0-update2b (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update2c (including) 7.0-update2c (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update2d (including) 7.0-update2d (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update3 (including) 7.0-update3 (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update3a (including) 7.0-update3a (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update3c (including) 7.0-update3c (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update3d (including) 7.0-update3d (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update3e (including) 7.0-update3e (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update3f (including) 7.0-update3f (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update3g (including) 7.0-update3g (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update3h (including) 7.0-update3h (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update3i (including) 7.0-update3i (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update3j (including) 7.0-update3j (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update3k (including) 7.0-update3k (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update3l (including) 7.0-update3l (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update3m (including) 7.0-update3m (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update3n (including) 7.0-update3n (including)

Extended Description

New weaknesses can be exposed because running with extra privileges, such as root or Administrator, can disable the normal security checks being performed by the operating system or surrounding environment. Other pre-existing weaknesses can turn into security vulnerabilities if they occur while operating at raised privileges. Privilege management functions can behave in some less-than-obvious ways, and they have different quirks on different platforms. These inconsistencies are particularly pronounced if you are transitioning from one non-root user to another. Signal handlers and spawned processes run at the privilege of the owning process, so if a process is running as root when a signal fires or a sub-process is executed, the signal handler or sub-process will operate with root privileges.

Potential Mitigations

References