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CVE-2024-38813 Unmapped
VMware vCenter Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- VMware — vCenter Server
- Description (CISA)
- 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.
- Added to KEV
- 2024-11-20
- Due date
- 2024-12-11
- Required action
- Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-250, CWE-273
- CISA notes
- https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24968
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38813 - Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2024-38813. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-250, CWE-273) — here is why — and does not guess.
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