CVE record · CVE-2024-38812

Heap-overflow vulnerability

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalIn CISA KEVEPSS 0.55 · 99th percentile

Critical, because:

  • In CISA’s KEV catalogue since 20 Nov 2024: it is known to be exploited.
  • CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.
  • CVSS score 9.8 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.55 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: vmware) at 17 Sept 2024, 17:13 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 U3b custom
  • affected 7.0 to before 7.0 U3s custom
Other versions: unaffected
Not given VMware Cloud Foundation
  • affected 5.x
  • affected 4.x
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2024-38812
CNA
vmware
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-122
Published
17 Sept 2024
Updated
21 Oct 2025

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
9.8 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (vmware)
  • CISA KEV Listed since 20 Nov 2024: known to be exploited.
  • EPSS 0.55, the 99th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 17 Sept 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

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.