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VMware fixed a critical flaw in vRealize that allows executing arbitrary code as root

VMware fixed two severe flaws, tracked as CVE-2023-20864 and CVE-2023-20865, impacting the VMware Aria Operations for Logs product.

The virtualization giant VMware released security updates to address two critical vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-20864 and CVE-2023-20865, impacting the VMware Aria Operations for Logs product (formerly vRealize Log Insight).

The vulnerability CVE-2023-20864 (CVSSv3 base score of 9.8) is a deserialization issue that can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker with network access to VMware Aria Operations for Logs to execute arbitrary code as root.

The second vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20865 (CVSSv3 base score of 7.2), is a command injection issue that can be exploited by an attacker with administrative privileges in Aria Operations for Logs to execute arbitrary commands as root. The flaw was reported to the company by Y4er & MoonBack of 埃文科技.

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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”.

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