Critical Vulnerability Alert: VMware Aria Operations Networks at Risk from Remote Attacks
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| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Flags | Affected | Exposure | Published |
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| CVE-2023-20887 | Unauthenticated Command Injection RCE in VMware Aria Operations for Networks VMware Aria Operations for Networks (formerly vRealize Network Insight) contains a command injection flaw (CWE-77) that allows an attacker with network access to the appliance to run arbitrary operating-system commands. Because the attack requires no authentication, privileges, or user interaction (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N), any party able to reach the product's network interface can trigger it, gaining remote code execution with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Any organization running the product is affected, with internet-facing deployments at the greatest risk. Exploitation is confirmed in the wild — CISA added the flaw to the KEV catalog on 2023-06-22, a public proof-of-concept exploit is available, and EPSS puts the 30-day exploitation probability at 98.3% (top percentile). Ransomware use is currently unknown. Do: Apply the vendor's patched update to all Aria Operations for Networks deployments as soon as possible — this is also CISA's required KEV action (apply updates per vendor instructions); verify the installed build against VMware's advisory for affected ranges. Until patching is complete, restrict network access to the appliance (firewall rules, VPN, or management-segment isolation), prioritizing any instance reachable from the internet since no authentication is required to exploit. Hunt for indicators of command injection exploitation, as in-the-wild exploitation has been confirmed. | 9.8 | 98% | KEV PoC |
| moderate≈10,000+ appliance deployments worldwide (low tens of thousands of appliance nodes); only a small fraction, likely hundreds to low thousands of instances, are… | |
| CVE-2023-34039 +1 in the same advisory: …20890 | Aria Operations for Networks contains an Authentication Bypass vulnerability due to a lack of unique cryptographic key generation. Aria Operations for Networks contains an Authentication Bypass vulnerability due to a lack of unique cryptographic key generation. A malicious actor with network access to Aria Operations for Networks could bypass SSH authentication to gain access to the Aria Operations for Networks CLI. NVD description · AI analysis pending | 9.8 group max | 67% | PoC |
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Ravie LakshmananAug 30, 2023Vulnerability / Network Security
VMware has released software updates to correct two security vulnerabilities in Aria Operations for Networks that could be potentially exploited to bypass authentication and gain remote code execution.
The most severe of the flaws is CVE-2023-34039 (CVSS score: 9.8), which relates to a case of authentication bypass arising as a result of a lack of unique cryptographic key generation.
"A malicious actor with network access to Aria Operations for Networks could bypass SSH authentication to gain access to the Aria Operations for Networks CLI," the company said in an advisory.
ProjectDiscovery researchers Harsh Jaiswal and Rahul Maini have been credited with discovering and reporting the issue.
The second weakness, CVE-2023-20890 (CVSS score: 7.2), is an arbitrary file write vulnerability impacting Aria Operations for Networks that could be abused by an adversary with administrative access to write files to arbitrary locations and achieve remote code execution.
Credited with reporting the bug is Sina Kheirkhah of Summoning Team, who previously uncovered multiple flaws in the same product, including CVE-2023-20887, which came under active exploitation in the wild in June 2023.
The vulnerabilities, which affect VMware Aria Operations Networks versions 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5.1, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, and 6.10, have been addressed in a series of patches released by VMware for each of the versions.
The virtualization services provider said that version 6.11.0 comes with fixes for the two flaws.
Given that security issues in VMware have emerged as a lucrative target for threat actors in the past, it's imperative that users move quickly to update to the latest version to safeguard against potential threats.
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