Description
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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- high
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-250CWE-273CWE-273
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- VMWARE
- Published
- 9/17/2024
- Last Modified
- 10/31/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
vmware : cloud_foundationvmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_servervmware : vcenter_server
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