CVE-2024-38813

CISA KEV
ACT NOW Priority: 0.00 BB Relevance: 3/100
Published: N/A Modified: N/A First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: pending_score

Description

VMware vCenter contains an improper check for dropped privileges vulnerability. This vulnerability could allow an attacker with network access to the vCenter Server to escalate privileges to root by sending a specially crafted packet.

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

Vendor / Product VMware — vCenter Server
Date Added 2024-11-20
Remediation Due 2024-12-11
https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24968 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38813

Bug Bounty Relevance

3 / 100
✓ Known exploited (KEV)

CVSS Score

Unscored

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

17.36%
Raw Score 0.173550
Percentile 97.1%
Date 2026-10-28

Intelligence Sources

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