VMware has released software updates to correct two security vulnerabilities in Aria Operations for Networks that could be potentially exploited to bypass authentication and gain remote code execution.
The most severe of the flaws is CVE-2023-34039 (CVSS score: 9.8), which relates to a case of authentication bypass arising as a result of a lack of unique cryptographic key generation.
ProjectDiscovery researchers Harsh Jaiswal and Rahul Maini have been credited with discovering and reporting the issue.
The second weakness, CVE-2023-20890 (CVSS score: 7.2), is an arbitrary file write vulnerability impacting Aria Operations for Networks that could be abused by an adversary with administrative access to write files to arbitrary locations and achieve remote code execution.
Credited with reporting the bug is Sina Kheirkhah of Summoning Team, who previously uncovered multiple flaws in the same product, including CVE-2023-20887, which came under active exploitation in the wild in June 2023.
The virtualization services provider said that version 6.11.0 comes with fixes for the two flaws.
Given that security issues in VMware are a lucrative target for threat actors in the past, it’s imperative that users move quickly to update to the latest version to safeguard against potential threats.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/
