🛡️ CVE-2023-34043 — aria-operations

🟡 CVSS 6.7 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-269 NVD
6.7
CVSS Score
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Description

VMware Aria Operations contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with administrative access to the local system can escalate privileges to 'root'.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-34043 is classified as CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management. Privileges are assigned, dropped or restored incorrectly, leaving an actor with more access than intended.

Affected software

CVE-2023-34043 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • aria-operations
  • cloud-foundation

Timeline and source

Published on 27 September 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.vmware.com
www.vmware.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-269
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-09-27
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
aria-operations — —
cloud-foundation — —

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