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ghsa-h7h7-f9wh-xhj8

Vulnerability from github

Published

2023-08-31 12:30

Modified

2023-11-17 06:31

Severity ?

7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor with man-in-the-middle (MITM) network positioning between vCenter server and the virtual machine may be able to bypass SAML token signature verification, to perform VMware Tools Guest Operations.

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    "severity": "HIGH"
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  "modified": "2023-11-17T06:31:20Z",
  "published": "2023-08-31T12:30:52Z",
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    },
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    },
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    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231013-0002"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
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    },
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cve-2023-20900

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2023-08-31 09:45

Modified

2024-08-02 09:21

Severity ?

7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

A malicious actor that has been granted Guest Operation Privileges https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-security/GUID-6A952214-0E5E-4CCF-9D2A-90948FF643EC.html in a target virtual machine may be able to elevate their privileges if that target virtual machine has been assigned a more privileged Guest Alias https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/d1902b0e-d479-46bf-8ac9-cee0e31e8ec0/07ce8dbd-db48-4261-9b8f-c6d3ad8ba472/vim.vm.guest.AliasManager.html .

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0019.html
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/08/31/1
	https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5493
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZJM6HDRQYS74JA7YNKQBFH2XSZ52HEWH/
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NVKQ6Y2JFJRWPFOZUOTFO3H27BK5GGOG/
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TJNJMD67QIT6LXLKWSHFM47DCLRSMT6W/
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00000.html
	https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231013-0002/
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/27/1

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

▼

n/a

VMware Tools

Version: 12.x.x
Version: 11.x.x
Version: 10.3.x

	n/a	VMware Tools	Version: 10.3.x
	n/a	VMware Tools (open-vm-tools)	Version: 12.x.x Version: 11.x.x Version: 10.3.x

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