About Remote Code Execution – VMware vCenter (CVE-2024-38812). The vulnerability was published on September 17. An attacker with network access to the vCenter Server can send a specially crafted network packet and cause an RCE. This is due to a heap overflow in the DCERPC protocol implementation.

The vulnerability was discovered during The Matrix Cup competition by a team from Tsinghua University. There is no write-up yet. There is only one repository on GitHub, where some no-name sells the exploit for $105 (upd. A confirmed scam). On AttackerKB, another no-name claims to have seen the vulnerability exploited in the wild. The reliability is questionable.

However, we remember a similar RCE vulnerability vCenter DCERPC CVE-2023-34048, which has been exploited in targeted attacks since 2021. Censys reported then about 293 vCenter hosts with DCERPC accessible from the Internet.

Chances are high that there will be a big story with this vulnerability too.

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