Vulnerabilities fixed in VMware ESXi and vCenter Server

VMware has fixed vulnerabilities in ESXi and vCenter Server. A malicious party can exploit the vulnerabilities to cause a denial-of-service on the host, or to grant itself elevated privileges to perform actions that the malicious party is not initially authorized to perform. This does require the...

CVE-2024-37087

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2024-07-30 08:10:29+00:00| seen| https://www.cert.at/de/warnungen/2024/7/kritische-sicherheitslucke-in-vmware-esxi-aktiv-ausgenutzt-update-verfugbar...

CVE-2024-37086

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2024-07-30 08:10:29+00:00| seen| https://www.cert.at/de/warnungen/2024/7/kritische-sicherheitslucke-in-vmware-esxi-aktiv-ausgenutzt-update-verfugbar...

VMware ESXi Flaw Exploited by Ransomware Groups for Admin Access

A recently patched security flaw impacting VMware ESXi hypervisors has been actively exploited by "several" ransomware groups to gain elevated permissions and deploy file-encrypting malware. The attacks involve the exploitation of CVE-2024-37085 CVSS score: 6.8, an Active Directory integration...

VMware ESXi CVE-2024-37085 Targeted in Ransomware Campaigns

On Monday, July 29, Microsoft published an extensive threat intelligence blog on observed exploitation of CVE-2024-37085, an Active Directory integration authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Broadcom VMware ESXi hypervisors. The vulnerability, according to Redmond, was identified in...

VMware ESXi Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

VMware ESXi contains an authentication bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor with sufficient Active Directory AD permissions can gain full access to an ESXi host that was previously configured to use AD for user management by re-creating the configured AD group 'ESXi Admins' by default after it...

Security Bulletin: IBM DataPower Gateway Virtual Edition vulnerable to security bypass due to open-vm-tools (CVE-2023-20867)

Summary open-vm-tools provides an interface between IBM DataPower Gateway Virtual Edition and the hypervisor. This issue may permit a compromised hypervisor to perform unauthorized guest operations. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2023-20867 DESCRIPTION: VMware Tools could allow a local...

Photon OS 3.0: Postgresql13 PHSA-2023-3.0-0632

An update of the postgresql13 package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2023-3.0-0632. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Photon OS 4.0: Wget PHSA-2024-4.0-0659

An update of the wget package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2024-4.0-0659. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Photon OS 5.0: Wget PHSA-2024-5.0-0331

An update of the wget package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2024-5.0-0331. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Photon OS 5.0: Python3 PHSA-2024-5.0-0332

An update of the python3 package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2024-5.0-0332. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Photon OS 3.0: Bluez PHSA-2024-3.0-0741

An update of the bluez package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2024-3.0-0741. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Photon OS 3.0: Squid PHSA-2024-3.0-0751

An update of the squid package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2024-3.0-0751. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

USN-6919-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker could possibly trigger this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. CVE-2022-38096 It was discovered that the ATA over...

USN-6917-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker could possibly trigger this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. CVE-2022-38096 Gui-Dong Han discovered that the...

USN-6917-1 linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde, linux-azure-fde-5.15 vulnerabilities

Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A local attacker could possibly trigger this vulnerability to cause a denial of service. CVE-2022-38096 Gui-Dong Han discovered that the...

Photon OS 4.0: Httpd PHSA-2024-4.0-0659

An update of the httpd package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2024-4.0-0659. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6919-1)

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6919-1 advisory. Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointer dereferenc...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6917-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6917-1 advisory. Ziming Zhang discovered that the DRM driver for VMware Virtual GPU did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a NULL pointe...

Photon OS 3.0: Nxtgn PHSA-2022-3.0-0408

An update of the nxtgn package has been released. %NASLMINLEVEL 80900 C Tenable, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2022-3.0-0408. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...