Is CVE-2024-38831 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2024-38831 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2024-38831?

CVE-2024-38831 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2024-38831?

CVE-2024-38831 has an EPSS score of 0.29% (21th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2024-38831?

Upgrade aria operations to 8.18.2 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2024-38831

HIGH

7.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

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.

CWE-77Command Injection

How to fix

Remediation Available

aria operationsNVD

Affected:>= 8.0, < 8.18.2Fixed in:8.18.2CVE-2024-38831derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

0.29%probability of exploitation in 30 days

21stpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 21% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory1

support.broadcom.com

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2025-05-14.