VMware Issues Patches to Fix Critical Bugs Affecting Multiple Products

guest · Aug 6, 2021

VMware addresses critical flaws in its products
August 6, 2021
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/120870/security/vmware-critical-vulnerabilities.html

VMware has released security updates to address multiple flaws in its products, including a critical issue that could allow an attacker to access confidential information.

A couple of vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2021-22002 and CVE-2021-22003, impact Workspace One Access (Access), Identity Manager (vIDM), vRealize Automation (vRA), Cloud Foundation, and vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.

CVE-2021-22002 is related to VMware Workspace One Access and Identity Manager, which allows to the /cfg web app and diagnostic endpoints via port 443 by using a custom host header.

“VMware Workspace One Access and Identity Manager, allow the /cfg web app and diagnostic endpoints, on port 8443, to be accessed via port 443 using a custom host header. VMware has evaluated this issue to be of ‘Important‘ severity with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 8.6.” states the report. reads the security advisory published by the company.
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The CVE-2021-22003 flaw is an Information Disclosure Vulnerability that resides in the VMware Workspace One Access and Identity Management.

[...] “VMware Workspace One Access and Identity Manager, unintentionally provide a login interface on port 7443. VMware has evaluated this issue to be of ‘Low‘ severity with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 3.7.” states the advisory.
VMware provided a workaround for CVE-2021-22002.
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guest · Aug 26, 2021

VMware Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities in vRealize Operations
August 25, 2021
https://www.securityweek.com/vmware-patches-high-severity-vulnerabilities-vrealize-operations

The most important of these is CVE-2021-22025 (CVSS score of 8.6), which is described as a broken access control vulnerability in the vRealize Operations Manager API. An attacker able to exploit the vulnerability could gain unauthenticated API access.

The company also addressed an arbitrary log-file read vulnerability in the vRealize Operations Manager API (CVE-2021-22024, CVSS score of 7.5) and two server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-22026 and CVE-2021-22027, CVSS score of 7.5).
An unauthenticated threat actor with network access could exploit CVE-2021-22024 to read any log file, or could target CVE-2021-22026 and CVE-2021-22027 to perform SSRF attacks, which can result in information disclosure.
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VMware addressed two other security issues in vRealize Operations Manager API, namely (CVE-2021-22023, CVSS score of 6.6), and CVE-2021-22022 (CVSS score of 4.4), which could be exploited to modify the information of other users and take over their accounts, or read any arbitrary file on the server.

VMware has released patches for all of the affected product versions and encourages customers to install them as soon as possible, to ensure they remain protected.
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