Denial of service

VMware Workstation 14.x before 14.1.1, 12.x and Fusion 10.x before 10.1.1 and 8.x contain a denial-of-service vulnerability which can be triggered by opening a large number of VNC sessions. Note: In order for exploitation to be possible on Workstation and Fusion, VNC must be manually enabled...

CVE-2018-6957

CVE-2018-6957 affects VMware Workstation Pro/Player (14.x prior to 14.1.1; 12.x) and VMware Fusion (10.x prior to 10.1.1 and 8.x). The vulnerability is a denial-of-service that can be triggered by opening a large number of VNC sessions; exploitation requires VNC to be manually enabled. Public-fac...

CVE-2018-6957

VMware Workstation 14.x before 14.1.1, 12.x and Fusion 10.x before 10.1.1 and 8.x contain a denial-of-service vulnerability which can be triggered by opening a large number of VNC sessions. Note: In order for exploitation to be possible on Workstation and Fusion, VNC must be manually enabled...

KLA11215 DoS vulnerability in VMware Products

An unspecified vulnerability was found in VMware Workstation, Player and Fusion. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can cause denial of service. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a opening a large number of VNC sessions. Original advisories VMSA-2018-0008 Related...

VMware VNC Lock Count Denial of Service Vulnerability

Summary An exploitable Denial of Service vulnerability exists in the remote management functionality of VMware . A large amount of VNC connections can cause an exception in the server to trigger, resulting in a shutdown of the virtual machine. An attacker can initiate VNC sessions to trigger this...

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...

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...

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...

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...