Aria OperationsApplication · VMware
CVE-2024-38833
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 stored cross-site scripting vulnerability. A malicious actor with editing access to email templates might inject malicious script leading to stored cross-site scripting in the product 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 · high confidenceVMware Aria Operations contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in its email template functionality. A malicious actor with editing access to email templates can inject malicious JavaScript script, which gets stored and executed when users view or use the affected email templates.
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
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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 if VMware Aria Operations is installedLocate the VMware Aria Operations installation in your environment. Check for the presence of the aria-operations service or related processes.Affected if The product is installed and running
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Verify the installed version of VMware Aria OperationsCheck the installed version of VMware Aria Operations against the affected range: versions 8.0.0 through 8.18.1 (versions less than 8.18.2) are affected.Affected if The installed version is >= 8.0.0 and < 8.18.2
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Identify if VMware Cloud Foundation is deployedCheck if VMware Cloud Foundation is in use in the environment.Affected if VMware Cloud Foundation versions 4.0 through 5.2 are installed
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Determine if email template editing is accessibleVerify whether user accounts have permissions to edit email templates within VMware Aria Operations. Check the access control settings for the email template functionality.Affected if Users with email template editing privileges exist in the system
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Inspect existing email templates for unexpected contentReview all custom email templates in the system for any suspicious script tags, JavaScript code, or unexpected HTML attributes that may indicate injected malicious content.Affected if Any email template contains suspicious script content or unexpected code injections
Your environment is affected if VMware Aria Operations version is 8.0 through 8.18.1, or VMware Cloud Foundation version 4.0 through 5.2 is running, and email templates with malicious script content have been created by a privileged user.
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
Apply available patches from VMware. Until patches are available, restrict access to email template editing to trusted users only and implement output encoding/sanitization for email template content.
VMware Aria Operations 8.18.2 (and corresponding Cloud Foundation update that includes Aria Operations 8.18.2)
- 1. Back up the current Aria Operations configuration before starting the upgrade process
- 2. Download VMware Aria Operations 8.18.2 from the Broadcom support portal
- 3. Apply the upgrade following the standard upgrade procedure documented in the Aria Operations documentation
- 4. After upgrade, verify that email templates can be accessed and rendered correctly
- 5. Validate that the XSS vulnerability is resolved by attempting to inject script in email templates (using a non-malicious test script for verification purposes only)
Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.
Fix this in Aria Operations
Scoped from the published advisory
- Consultation6.0 h
- Implementation12.0 h
- Testing8.0 h
- Review / QA4.0 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-2024-38833 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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