Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-38834

Medium

Published: 26 November 2024

Published
26 November 2024
Modified
14 May 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0052 67.1th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-38834 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Vmware Aria Operations. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 32.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

VMware Aria Operations contains a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability. A malicious actor with editing access to cloud provider might be able to inject malicious script leading to stored cross-site scripting in the product VMware Aria Operations.

CWE(s)
CWE-79

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

vmware
aria operations
8.0 — 8.18.2
vmware
cloud foundation
4.0 — 5.2

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

CA-8 Penetration Testing
addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

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