CVE-2024-38329

HIGH 7.7CVE-2024-38329 · Published 19/06/2024 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2024-38329 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.7) vulnerability affecting storage protect for virtual environments (ibm).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.47%, higher than 40.9% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 8.1.23.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
storage protect for virtual environments ibm	`≥ 8.1.0.0, < 8.1.23.0`	`8.1.23.0`

Description

IBM Storage Protect for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware 8.1.0.0 through 8.1.22.0 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper validation of user permission. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to change its settings, trigger backups, restore backups, and also delete all previous backups via log rotation. IBM X-Force ID: 294994.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/294994 · Vendor Advisory
ibm.com/support/pages/node/7157929 · Vendor Advisory

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