Aria OperationsApplication · VMware
CVE-2024-38830
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedVMware 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.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceVMware Aria Operations contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability allowing a malicious actor with local administrative privileges to escalate to root user on the appliance.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Aria OperationsApplication
>= 8.0, < 8.18.2
Cloud FoundationApplication
>= 4.0, <= 5.2CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify installed VMware productDetermine if VMware Aria Operations or VMware Cloud Foundation is installed on the system by checking installed packages or the product UIAffected if The product is VMware Aria Operations or VMware Cloud Foundation
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Check installed versionRetrieve the installed version of VMware Aria Operations or VMware Cloud Foundation using the product's CLI or administrative interfaceAffected if The installed version is VMware Aria Operations >= 8.0 but < 8.18.2, or VMware Cloud Foundation >= 4.0 and <= 5.2
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Verify local administrative accessReview local user accounts with administrative privileges on the applianceAffected if There are local administrative accounts present on the appliance beyond the intended trusted administrators
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Check for unauthorized root processesInspect running processes and cron jobs for unexpected root-level executions or scriptsAffected if There are suspicious processes or scheduled tasks running as root that were not authorized by your administration team
The environment is affected if VMware Aria Operations version is 8.0 through 8.18.1, or VMware Cloud Foundation is version 4.0 through 5.2, and untrusted local administrative accounts exist on the appliance.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
dbcve · scoped8.18.2
Restrict local administrative access to trusted personnel, monitor for privilege escalation attempts, and apply vendor-provided patches when available.
Aria Operations 8.18.2 (Cloud Foundation: contact Broadcom for specific patch)
- Back up the current VMware Aria Operations configuration and data
- Schedule a maintenance window for the upgrade
- Download VMware Aria Operations version 8.18.2 from the Broadcom support portal (support.broadcom.com)
- Upload the upgrade bundle to the Aria Operations appliance
- Initiate the upgrade through the Aria Operations admin interface or CLI
- Verify the upgrade completed successfully by logging into the admin console
- Confirm root-level access is now properly secured and the vulnerability is remediated
Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.
Fix this in Aria Operations
Scoped from the published advisory
- Consultation8.0 h
- Implementation8.0 h
- Testing4.0 h
- Review / QA2.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2024-38830 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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