Thursday, 20 June 2024

Multiple remote code execution in VMWare products

Multiple remote code execution in VMWare products.

Date of Publish: June 20,24

Severity:Critical

Affected Software:

  • VMware vCenter Server
  • VMware Cloud Foundation

Summary:

Multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities in VMware products  which can allow attacket to take over the contrl of the affected systems.

Description:

The list of vulnerabilities is as follows -

  • CVE-2024-37079 & CVE-2024-37080- Multiple heap-overflow vulnerabilities in the implementation of the DCE/RPC protocol that could allow a,n attacker with network access to vCenter Server can do remote code execution by sending a specially crafted network packet
  • CVE-2024-37081 - Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in VMware vCenter arising due to the misconfiguration of ("sudo") that an authenticated local user with non-administrative privileges could exploit to obtain root permissions.

Impacted CVE:

CVE-2024-37079
CVE-2024-37080
CVE-2024-37081

 Solution:

https://core.vmware.com/resource/vmsa-2024-0012-questions-answers#introduction

 

Vendor reference:

https://core.vmware.com/resource/vmsa-2024-0012-questions-answers#introduction

Broadcom:

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24453 

 

NOTE : The information is provide is on “as is “ basis, without assurance of any kind