VMware addressed several critical vulnerabilities in multiple products

VMware fixed critical vulnerabilities in multiple products that could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

VMware has addressed critical remote code vulnerabilities in multiple products, including VMware’s Workspace ONE Access, VMware Identity Manager (vIDM), vRealize Lifecycle Manager, vRealize Automation, and VMware Cloud Foundation products.

The virtualization giant urges its customers to address the critical vulnerability immediately to prevent its exploitation.

“This critical vulnerability should be patched or mitigated immediately per the instructions in VMSA-2021-0011. The ramifications of this vulnerability are serious,” reads the security advisory published by VMware. “All environments are different, have different tolerance for risk, and have different security controls and defense-in-depth to mitigate risk, so customers must make their own decisions on how to proceed. However, given the severity of the vulnerability, we strongly recommend immediate action.”

The flaws addressed by the company have been tracked as CVE-2022-22954, CVE-2022-22955, CVE-2022-22956, CVE-2022-22957, CVE-2022-22958, CVE-2022-22959, CVE-2022-22960, CVE-2022-22961.

Below are the details of the vulnerabilities:

CVE-2022-22954 – server-side template injection remote code execution vulnerability;
CVE-2022-22955, CVE-2022-22956 – OAuth2 ACS authentication bypass vulnerability;
CVE-2022-22957, CVE-2022-22958 – JDBC injection remote code execution vulnerabilities.
CVE-2022-22959 – Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF);
CVE-2022-22960 – privilege escalation;
CVE-2022-22961 – unauthorized information disclosure.

The good news is that the company is not aware of attacks in the wild exploiting these vulnerabilities.

The complete list of affected versions and hotfixes with download is available here.

Users that cannot immediately fix the issues can apply the Workaround instructions provided by the company.

The company pointed out that workarounds do not remove the vulnerabilities, for this reason, it strongly recommends patching as the simplest and most reliable way to address the flaws.

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.