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 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 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 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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2017-4946

The VMware V4H and V4PA desktop agents 6.x before 6.5.1 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in a low privileged windows user escalating their privileges to SYSTEM...

Photon OS 3.0: Expat PHSA-2022-3.0-0456

An update of the expat 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-2022-3.0-0456. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Photon OS 3.0: Zstd PHSA-2022-3.0-0431

An update of the zstd 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-2022-3.0-0431. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Photon OS 3.0: Sudo PHSA-2023-3.0-0627

An update of the sudo 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-2023-3.0-0627. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

A Bootiful Podcast: Cloud Legend Mark Fynes

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Mark Fynes. Mark’s a field principal with Tanzu at Broadcom, building platforms with our Pivotal/VMWare/Broadcom customers for the past 10 years. Passionate technologist, working closely with developers, architects, IT-operations, security architectu...