Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities identified in VMWare ESXi shipped with IBM Cloud Pak System

Summary Vulnerabilties in VMware ESXi affect IBM Cloud Pak System. IBM Cloud Pak System has addressed these vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2022-26373 DESCRIPTION: VMware ESXi could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a...

Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar SIEM is vulnerable to using components with known vulnerabilities

Summary The product includes vulnerable components e.g., framework libraries that may be identified and exploited with automated tools. IBM QRadar SIEM has addressed the applicable CVEs. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2022-23816 DESCRIPTION: Xen could allow a local authenticated attacker to obta...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability identified in VMware component affects Cloud Pak System (CVE-2021-21974)

Summary Vulnerability identified in VMware component ESXi that is bundled with Cloud Pak System. Vulnerability Details Refer to the security bulletins listed in the Remediation/Fixes section Affected Products and Versions Affected Products| Versions ---|--- IBM Cloud Pak System| 2.3.x.x...

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The Bug Report – February 2023 Edition

The Bug Report – February 2023 Edition By Trellix · March 1, 2023 This story was also written by Sam Quinn. Figure 1: Ironic. It could protect other devices from threats, but not itself. Why am I here? Welcome back to the Bug Report! For those in the audience unfamiliar with our shtick, we compil...

ESXiArgs Ransomware Hits Over 500 New Targets in European Countries

More than 500 hosts have been newly compromised en masse by the ESXiArgs ransomware strain, most of which are located in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the U.K., and Ukraine. The findings come from attack surface management firm Censys, which discovered "two hosts with strikingly similar ranso...

SUSE CVE-2011-1787

Race condition in mount.vmhgfs in the VMware Host Guest File System HGFS in VMware Workstation 7.1.x before 7.1.4, VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.4, VMware Fusion 3.1.x before 3.1.3, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1, and VMware ESX 3.0.3 through 4.1 allows guest OS users to gain privileges on the gues...

VMware ESXi OpenSLP heap overflow

Added: 02/10/2023 Background VMware ESXi is a bare metal hypervisor. Problem A heap overflow vulnerability in the OpenSLP service could allow an attacker on the same network segment to execute arbitrary commands. Resolution Upgrade to a fixed version referenced in VMSA-2021-0002 or disable the SL...

VMware ESXi OpenSLP heap overflow

Added: 02/10/2023 Background VMware ESXi is a bare metal hypervisor. Problem A heap overflow vulnerability in the OpenSLP service could allow an attacker on the same network segment to execute arbitrary commands. Resolution Upgrade to a fixed version referenced in VMSA-2021-0002 or disable the SL...

ESXiArgs Ransomware Virtual Machine Recovery Guidance

Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA in response to the ongoing ransomware campaign, known as “ESXiArgs.” Malicious actors may be exploiting known vulnerabilities in VMware...

Ransomware Campaign Compromising VMware ESXi Servers

On February 3, 2023, French web hosting provider OVH and French CERT issued warnings about a ransomware campaign that was targeting VMware ESXi servers worldwide with a new ransomware strain dubbed “ESXiArgs.” The campaign appears to be leveraging CVE-2021-21974, a nearly two-year-old heap overfl...

[update]Two year old vulnerability used in ransomware attack against VMware ESXi

On Friday and over the weekend, several Computer Emergency Response Teams CERTs sounded the alarm about an ongoing large scale ransomware attack on VMware ESXi virtual machines. With some discrepancies between Shodan queries from various researchers, most agree that an estimated 500 entities were...

New Wave of Ransomware Attacks Exploiting VMware Bug to Target ESXi Servers

VMware ESXi hypervisors are the target of a new wave of attacks designed to deploy ransomware on compromised systems. "These attack campaigns appear to exploit CVE-2021-21974, for which a patch has been available since February 23, 2021," the Computer Emergency Response Team CERT of France said i...

Unveiling the Advanced Rust-based Nevada Ransomware

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A new type of ransomware named "Nevada Ransomware" has been identified. The creators of this ransomware have established an affiliate program that was initially introduced in the RAMP underground...

VMware ESXi 7.0 / 8.0 Heap Out-of-bounds Write (VMSA-2022-0033)

VMware ESXi contain a heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the USB 2.0 controller EHCI. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host. The exploitation is contained...

ESXi 6.5 / 6.7 / 7.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2022-0030)

The remote VMware ESXi host is version 6.5, 6.7 or 7.0 and is affected by multiple vulnerabilities, as follows: - A memory corruption issue that can lead to an escape of the ESXi sandbox. CVE-2022-31696 - A heap overflow vulnerability that can be exploited to disclose information. CVE-2022-31699...

CVE-2022-31705

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the USB 2.0 controller EHCI. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host. On ESX...

CVE-2022-31699

VMware ESXi contains a heap-overflow vulnerability. A malicious local actor with restricted privileges within a sandbox process may exploit this issue to achieve a partial information disclosure...

CVE-2022-31696

VMware ESXi contains a memory corruption vulnerability that exists in the way it handles a network socket. A malicious actor with local access to ESXi may exploit this issue to corrupt memory leading to an escape of the ESXi sandbox...

CVE-2022-31699

VMware ESXi contains a heap-overflow vulnerability. A malicious local actor with restricted privileges within a sandbox process may exploit this issue to achieve a partial information disclosure...