VMware Releases Security Updates

VMware has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in VMware Workstation and Fusion. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to cause a denial-of service condition. NCCIC/US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2018-0008 a...

A View of Upcoming Threat Coverage from Pwn2Own 2018

This blog will be updated throughout the competition so keep tracking for the latest updates on upcoming threat coverage! St. Patrick’s Day is coming up later this week, but the contestants at Pwn2Own 2018 will need more than luck on their side. They will need to dive into their expert hacking...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from vendo...

VMSA-2018-0008:Workstation and Fusion updates address a denial-of-service vulnerability

VMSA-2018-0008 Workstation and Fusion updates address a denial-of-service vulnerability VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2018-0008 VMware Security Advisory Severity: Important VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: Workstation and Fusion updates address a...

Update Veeam MP Core Services to Support TLS 1.2 Protocol

Challenge Starting with vSphere 6.5, the TLS protocol version 1.2 is enabled by default. Cause To allow Veeam Virtualization Extensions Service and Veeam VMware Collectors to connect to vCenter Servers that use the TLS 1.2 protocol, you must update Veeam MP core services. Solution NOTE: The...

VMware vRealize Operations Published Applications (V4PA) Desktop Agent Detection (Windows SMB Login)

SMB login-based detection of VMware vRealize Operations Published Applications V4PA Desktop Agent. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier:...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of February 26, 2018

Pwn2Own 2018 is coming up in a couple of weeks and I am excited to see what interesting vulnerabilities will pop up at the contest. I attempted to explain the contest to my mom, and in the simplest terms, I told her that Pwn2Own is a contest where contestants are rewarded for breaking something...

Design/Logic Flaw

A flaw was found in the CloudForms account configuration when using VMware. By default, a shared account is used that has privileged access to VMRC VMWare Remote Console functions that may not be appropriate for users of CloudForms and thus this account. An attacker could use this vulnerability t...

CVE-2017-12191

A flaw was found in the CloudForms account configuration when using VMware. By default, a shared account is used that has privileged access to VMRC VMWare Remote Console functions that may not be appropriate for users of CloudForms and thus this account. An attacker could use this vulnerability t...

CVE-2017-12191

A flaw was found in the CloudForms account configuration when using VMware. By default, a shared account is used that has privileged access to VMRC VMWare Remote Console functions that may not be appropriate for users of CloudForms and thus this account. An attacker could use this vulnerability t...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat CloudForms security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update is now available for CloudForms Management Engine 5.8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE...

CFME: VMRC plugin console grants users administrative access

A flaw was found in the CloudForms account configuration when using VMware. By default, a shared account is used that has privileged access to VMRC VMWare Remote Console functions that may not be appropriate for users of CloudForms and thus this account. An attacker could use this vulnerability t...

CVE-2017-12191

A flaw was found in the CloudForms account configuration when using VMware. By default, a shared account is used that has privileged access to VMRC VMWare Remote Console functions that may not be appropriate for users of CloudForms and thus this account. An attacker could use this vulnerability t...

CVE-2017-12191

The CVE-2017-12191 entry describes a CloudForms/Vmware issue where the CloudForms account configuration uses a shared, privileged account for VMRC functions. This flaws allows attackers to view and modify VMRC settings and the controlled virtual machines. Red Hat RHSA-2018:0374 documents a securi...

PT-2018-5381 · Red Hat · Cloudforms

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: CloudForms affected versions not specified Description: A flaw was found in the CloudForms account configuration when using VMware, where a shared account with privileged access to VMRC functions is used by default. This could allow an attack...

CVE-2017-12191

A flaw was found in the CloudForms account configuration when using VMware. By default, a shared account is used that has privileged access to VMRC VMWare Remote Console functions that may not be appropriate for users of CloudForms and thus this account. An attacker could use this vulnerability t...

VMware vCenter Server 6.5.x < 6.5u1f Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2018-0007) (Spectre-1) (Meltdown)

The version of VMware vCenter Server installed on the remote host is 6.5.x prior to 6.5u1f. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities. See advisory for details. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid106950; scriptversion"1.8";...

Cloud & Big Data: The Future of Security – Carbon Black & VMware’s 15-City Tour “Cloud Force Security” Kicks Off Feb. 20!

Endpoint Security is Broken Attackers are innovating faster than traditional defenses can keep up. In response, the security stack has become too complicated as more products that don’t work together are introduced to fill the gaps. There is a better way. Organizations are moving their endpoint a...

Veeam Backup & Replication support for vSphere

Purpose This article provides information about compatibility between vSphere and Veeam Backup & Replication. Solution The vSphere versions listed in this article include all applicable patches for those versions. vCenter Server versions and build numbers Build numbers and versions of VMware...

VMware Virtual Appliance updates address side-channel analysis due to speculative execution

a. VMware Virtual Appliance Mitigations for Bounds-Check bypass Spectre-1, and Rogue data cache load issues Meltdown CPU data cache timing can be abused to efficiently leak information out of mis-speculated CPU execution, leading to at worst arbitrary virtual memory read vulnerabilities across...