VMSA-2023-0002

• VMware vRealize Operations (vROps)

A vulnerability in VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) was privately reported to VMware. A patch is available to address this vulnerability in the affected VMware product.

vRealize Operations (vROps) contains a CSRF bypass vulnerability. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Moderate severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 6.5.

A malicious user could execute actions on the platform on behalf of the authenticated victim user.

To remediate CVE-2023-20856 apply the updates listed in the ‘Fixed Version’ column of the ‘Response Matrix’ below.

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VMware would like to thank thiscodecc of MoyunSec TopBreaker Labs and Bing Liu of MoyunSec for reporting this issue to us.

Fixed Version(s) and Release Notes:

VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) 8.6.4 HF9 KB90672: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/90672

Downloads and Documentation:

https://customerconnect.vmware.com/en/downloads/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vrealize_operations/8_6

https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations/8.6.4/rn/vrealize-operations-864-release-notes/index.html

Mitre CVE Dictionary Links:

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-20856

FIRST CVSSv3 Calculator:

CVE-2023-20856: https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.0#CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

2023-01-31 VMSA-2023-0002
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