ALSA-2022:6358 Important: open-vm-tools security update

The Open Virtual Machine Tools are the open source implementation of the VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines. Security Fixes: open-vm-tools: local root privilege escalation in the virtual...

Chile government’s Windows and Linux servers hit by RedAlert ransomware

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The Chilean Ministry of Interior asserted that RedAlert ransomware aka N13V attack had disrupted the operations and online services of a government agency in the country. In classic double-extortion...

Debian dla-3081 : open-vm-tools - security update

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3081 advisory. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3081-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : open-vm-tools (SUSE-SU-2022:2962-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2022:2962-1 advisory. - CVE-2022-31676: Fixed an issue that could allow unprivileged users inside a virtual machine to escalate privileges bsc1202657. Tenable has extracted...

Nutanix AOS : Multiple Vulnerabilities (NXSA-AOS-5.16.0.1)

The version of AOS installed on the remote host is prior to 5.16.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the NXSA-AOS-5.16.0.1 advisory. - OpenSLP as used in ESXi and the Horizon DaaS appliances has a heap overwrite issue. VMware has evaluated the severity of...

The vulnerability of the disaster recovery tool for Azure Site Recovery and VMWare to Azure, related to access control deficiencies, allows attackers to escalate their privileges.

The vulnerability of the disaster recovery tool for Azure virtual machines, Azure Site Recovery, and VMWare to Azure is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to increase their privileges remotely...

The vulnerability of the disaster recovery tool for Azure Site Recovery and VMWare to Azure, related to access control deficiencies, allows attackers to escalate their privileges.

The vulnerability of the disaster recovery tool for Azure virtual machines, Azure Site Recovery, and VMWare to Azure is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to increase their privileges remotely...

This Week in Spring - August 30th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! How are you? Howre you doin this fine tuesday morning? Im doing well, of course, because this week VMwares tentpole show - VMware Explore - is happening not even a mile from my home, here in San Francisco! And this is just the first one - therell be another show, my favorite show...

Session Fixation

github.com/vmware-tanzu/pinniped is vulnerable to session fixation. The vulnerability exists due to an insufficient session expiration used in the validateAccessToken function of tokenexchange.go, allowing an attacker to use the access token to continue the session without refreshing the token wh...

VMWare Workspace One Access Remote Code Execution (CVE-2022-31659)

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in VMWare Workspace One Access. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system...

VMWare Workspace One Access Authentication Bypass (CVE-2022-31656)

An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in VMWare Workspace One Access. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information and gain unauthorized access to the affected system...

VMware Pinniped Supervisor 代码问题漏洞

Supervisor is a process control system for Unix-like systems. The system is primarily used to monitor and control processes in Unix-like operating systems.VMware Pinniped is a software from VMware that provides identity services for Kubernetes. A security vulnerability exists in VMware Pinniped...

Iranian Hackers Exploiting Unpatched Log4j 2 Bugs to Target Israeli Organizations

Iranian state-sponsored actors are leaving no stone unturned to exploit unpatched systems running Log4j to target Israeli entities, indicating the vulnerability's long tail for remediation. Microsoft attributed the latest set of activities to the umbrella threat group tracked as MuddyWater aka...

CVE-2022-23235

Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows versions prior to 9.10P1 are susceptible to a vulnerability which could allow an attacker to discover cluster, node and Active IQ Unified Manager specific information via AutoSupport telemetry data that is sent even when...

CVE-2022-23235

Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows versions prior to 9.10P1 are susceptible to a vulnerability which could allow an attacker to discover cluster, node and Active IQ Unified Manager specific information via AutoSupport telemetry data that is sent even when...

Privilege Escalation

open-vm-tools is vulnerable to privilege escalation A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS can escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine...

VMware Tools 11.x / 12.x < 12.1.0 Privilege Escalation (VMSA-2022-0024)

The version of VMware Tools installed on the remote Windows host is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to the Guest OS can escalate privileges as a root user in the virtual machine. Note that Nessus has not tested for this issu...

VMware Tanzu Spring Cloud Function Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

When using routing functionality in VMware Tanzu's Spring Cloud Function, it is possible for a user to provide a specially crafted SpEL as a routing-expression that may result in remote code execution and access to local resources...

USN-5578-2: Open VM Tools vulnerability

USN-5578-1 fixed a vulnerability in Open VM Tools. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that Open VM Tools incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker inside the guest could possibly use this issue to gain root...

USN-5578-1: Open VM Tools vulnerability

It was discovered that Open VM Tools incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker inside the guest could possibly use this issue to gain root privileges inside the virtual machine...