CVE-2023-34060

9.8CRITICAL

Key Information

Vendor
Vmware
Status
VMware Cloud Director Appliance (VCD Appliance)
Vendor
CVE Published:
14 November 2023

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📰 News Worthy

Summary

VMware Cloud Director Appliance contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in case VMware Cloud Director Appliance was upgraded to 10.5 from an older version. On an upgraded version of VMware Cloud Director Appliance 10.5, a malicious actor with network access to the appliance can bypass login restrictions when authenticating on port 22 (ssh) or port 5480 (appliance management console) . This bypass is not present on port 443 (VCD provider and tenant login). On a new installation of VMware Cloud Director Appliance 10.5, the bypass is not present. VMware Cloud Director Appliance is impacted since it uses an affected version of sssd from the underlying Photon OS. The sssd issue is no longer present in versions of Photon OS that ship with sssd-2.8.1-11 or higher (Photon OS 3) or sssd-2.8.2-9 or higher (Photon OS 4 and 5).

Affected Version(s)

VMware Cloud Director Appliance (VCD Appliance) = 10.5 if upgraded from 10.4.x or below.

News Articles

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Urgent: VMware Warns of Unpatched Critical Cloud Director Vulnerability

VMware raises the alarm about an unpatched security flaw (CVE-2023-34060) in Cloud Director, which could allow attackers to bypass authentication.

1 year ago

CVSS V3.1

Score:
9.8
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • First article discovered by The Hacker News

  • Vulnerability published.

  • Vulnerability Reserved.

Collectors

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