SB2023051209 - Multiple vulnerabilities in VMware Aria Operations and Cloud Foundation

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-20877)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions, which leads to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation.

2) Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-20878)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to insecure input validation when processing serialized data. A remote administrator can pass specially crafted data to the application and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

3) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-20879)

The vulnerability allows a local administrator to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions, which leads to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation.

4) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-20880)

The vulnerability allows a local administrator to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions, which leads to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0009.html