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CVE record · CVE-2024-37081

The vCenter Server contains multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities due to misconfiguration of sudo.

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.050 · 92nd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: vmware) at 18 Jun 2024, 05:43 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Not given VMware vCenter Server
  • affected 8.0 to before 8.0 U2d custom
  • affected 7.0 to before 7.0 U3r custom
Other versions: unaffected
Not given VMware Cloud Foundation
  • affected 5.x
  • affected 4.x
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2024-37081
CNA
vmware
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-556
Tags
Published
18 Jun 2024
Updated
4 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.8 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (vmware)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.050, the 92nd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 18 Jun 2024, 05:43 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
  2. 18 Jun 2024, 06:15 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.