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VMware fixes a command injection flaw CVE-2023-20887 in VMware Aria Operations for Networks

Virtualization giant VMware addressed critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in VMware Aria Operations for Networks.

Virtualization technology giant VMware released security patches to address three critical and high-severity vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-20887, CVE-2023-20888, CVE-2023-20889, in VMware Aria Operations for Networks.

VMware Aria Operations for Networks (formerly vRealize Network Insight) is a network monitoring tool that helps organizations build an optimized, highly available, and secure network infrastructure.

The most severe issue addressed by the company is a Command Injection vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-20887 (CVSSv3 score of 9.8).

“A malicious actor with network access to VMware Aria Operations for Networks may be able to perform a command injection attack resulting in remote code execution.” reads the advisory published by VMware.

The company also addressed an authenticated deserialization vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-20888 (CVSSv3 score of 9.1).

“A malicious actor with network access to VMware Aria Operations for Networks and valid ‘member’ role credentials may be able to perform a deserialization attack resulting in remote code execution.” continues the advisory.

The third vulnerability addressed by the company is a network information disclosure vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-20889 (CVSSv3 score of 8.8).

The virtualization firm fixed the issues with the release of VMware Aria Operations for Networks 6.x HF: KB92684.

At this time no workarounds are available.

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

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.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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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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