Critical VMware Bug Opens Up Corporate Treasure to Hackers

A critical information-disclosure bug in VMware’s Directory Service vmdir could lay bare the contents of entire corporate virtual infrastructures, if exploited by cyberattackers. The vmdir is part of VMware’s vCenter Server product, which provides centralized management of virtualized hosts and...

CVE-2020-3952

Under certain conditions, vmdir that ships with VMware vCenter Server, as part of an embedded or external Platform Services Controller PSC, does not correctly implement access controls...

CVE-2020-3952

Under certain conditions, vmdir that ships with VMware vCenter Server, as part of an embedded or external Platform Services Controller PSC, does not correctly implement access controls...

Design/Logic Flaw

Under certain conditions, vmdir that ships with VMware vCenter Server, as part of an embedded or external Platform Services Controller PSC, does not correctly implement access controls...

CVE-2020-3952

Under certain conditions, vmdir that ships with VMware vCenter Server, as part of an embedded or external Platform Services Controller PSC, does not correctly implement access controls...

CVE-2020-3952

Under certain conditions, vmdir that ships with VMware vCenter Server, as part of an embedded or external Platform Services Controller PSC, does not correctly implement access controls...

CVE-2020-3952

CVE-2020-3952 affects VMware vCenter Server’s Directory Service (vmdir) when the Platform Services Controller does not enforce access controls, enabling a network-accessible attacker (port 389) to perform an authentication bypass and potentially gain control over the vCenter Directory. Public sou...

VMware Releases Security Updates for VMware Directory Service

VMware has released security updates to address a vulnerability in VMware Directory Service vmdir. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review VMware...

Photon OS 2.0: Bindutils PHSA-2020-2.0-0223

An update of the bindutils package has been released. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2020-2.0-0223. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

CVE-2020-3952 - VMware vCenter Server vmdir Information Disclosure

Under certain conditions, vmdir that ships with VMware vCenter Server, as part of an embedded or external Platform Services Controller PSC, does not correctly implement access controls. Recent assessments: wvu-r7 at April 16, 2020 1:25pm UTC reported: Technical details on the vuln are out:...

Photon OS 2.0: Gdb PHSA-2020-2.0-0225

An update of the gdb package has been released. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2020-2.0-0225. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid135303;...

Photon OS 2.0: Python3 PHSA-2020-2.0-0226

An update of the python3 package has been released. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2020-2.0-0226. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Photon OS 2.0: Envoy PHSA-2020-2.0-0222

An update of the envoy package has been released. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2020-2.0-0222. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid135301...

Photon OS 2.0: Libxml2 PHSA-2020-2.0-0225

An update of the libxml2 package has been released. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2020-2.0-0225. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

VMware vCenter Server updates address sensitive information disclosure vulnerability in the VMware Directory Service (vmdir) (CVE-2020-3952)

3. VMware vCenter Server updates address sensitive information disclosure vulnerability in the VMware Directory Service vmdir CVE-2020-3952 Under certain conditions1 vmdir that ships with VMware vCenter Server, as part of an embedded or external Platform Services Controller PSC, does not correctl...

VMware vCenter Server vmdir Authentication Bypass

This module bypasses LDAP authentication in VMware vCenter Server's vmdir service to add an arbitrary administrator user. Version 6.7 prior to the 6.7U3f update is vulnerable, only if upgraded from a previous release line, such as 6.0 or 6.5. Note that it is also possible to provide a bind userna...

VMware vCenter Server vmdir Information Disclosure

This module uses an anonymous-bind LDAP connection to dump data from the vmdir service in VMware vCenter Server version 6.7 prior to the 6.7U3f update, only if upgraded from a previous release line, such as 6.0 or 6.5. If the bind username and password are provided BINDDN and LDAPPassword options...

VMSA-2020-0007:VMware vRealize Log Insight addresses Cross Site Scripting (XSS) and Open Redirect vulnerabilities

Advisory ID: VMSA-2020-0007.2 CVSSv3 Range: 6.1 - 8.4 Issue Date:2020-04-14 Updated On: 2020-06-24 CVEs: CVE-2020-3953, CVE-2020-3954 Synopsis: VMware vRealize Log Insight addresses Cross Site Scripting XSS and Open Redirect vulnerabilities CVE-2020-3953, CVE-2020-3954 RSS Feed Download PDF...

vExpert Security 2020 Award Announcement

Thank you to everyone who applied for the vExpert Security sub-group and thank you to the vExpert PRO’s for doing their part in this process. We are pleased to announce the list of 2020 vExperts Security. Each of these vExperts have demonstrated significant contributions to the community and a...

Restore a deleted vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) with High Availability (HA) enabled

Challenge You need to restore a vCenter Server Appliance VCSA with the original name and to the original location. Before the VCSA got corrupted or was deleted, High Availability HA was enabled in the VMware cluster. If HA remains active at the ESXi host level during the restore process, HA can...