What is CVE-2024-38817?

CVE-2024-38817 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vmware Nsx, Cloud Foundation, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2024-10-09.

How severe is CVE-2024-38817?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.

RCE in Vmware Nsx, Cloud Foundation

CVE-2024-38817

VMware NSX contains a command injection vulnerability. A malicious actor with access to the NSX Edge CLI terminal may be able to craft malicious payloads to execute arbitrary commands on the operating system as root.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.005 (40.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

N/a Vmware Nsx, Cloud Foundation — versions VMware NSX 4.1.x, NSX-T 3.2.x

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

References

security@vmware.com

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-38817?: CVE-2024-38817 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vmware Nsx, Cloud Foundation, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2024-10-09.
How severe is CVE-2024-38817?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.