VMware Aria Operations contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges can insert malicious commands into the properties file to escalate privileges to a root user on the appliance running VMware Aria Operations.
https://securityaffairs.com/171472/security/vmware-fixed-five-vulnerabilitiesaria-operations.html
https://www.securityweek.com/vmware-patches-high-severity-vulnerabilities-in-aria-operations/