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Medium · 4.9 Public exploit CVE-2024-22275 EUVD-2024-19838GHSA-8rjh-f75w-mvh9

The vCenter Server contains a partial file read vulnerability. A malicious actor with administrative privileges on the vCenter appliance sh…

Published May 21, 2024 · Updated Mar 27, 2025 · Assigned by vmware

Description

The vCenter Server contains a partial file read vulnerability. A malicious actor with administrative privileges on the vCenter appliance shell may exploit this issue to partially read arbitrary files containing sensitive data.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— VMware vCenter Server 8.0 – < 8.0 U2b, 7.0 – < 7.0 U3q 8.0 U2b
— VMware Cloud Foundation (vCenter Server) 5.x – < 5.1.1, 4.x 5.1.1

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

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GitHub 1 repository

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