VMSA-2023-0004

• VMware Carbon Black App Control (App Control)

An injection vulnerability affecting VMware Carbon Black App Control was privately reported to VMware. Updates are available to address this vulnerability in affected VMware products.

VMware Carbon Black App Control contains an injection vulnerability. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Critical severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 9.1.

A malicious actor with privileged access to the App Control administration console may be able to use specially crafted input allowing access to the underlying server operating system.

To remediate CVE-2023-20858 update to the versions listed in the ‘Fixed Version’ column of the ‘Response Matrix’ found below.

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VMware would like to thank Jari Jääskelä (@JJaaskela) for reporting this vulnerability to us.

Downloads and Documentation:

VMware Carbon Black App Control 8.9.4
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Carbon-Black-App-Control/services/cb-ac-announcements/GUID-7464A525-BCF4-4329-9228-B040C9C16D22.html

VMware Carbon Black App Control 8.7.8, 8.8.6
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Carbon-Black-App-Control/services/cb-ac-announcements/GUID-35DA49E4-41F3-485B-88E5-AE69B354F2FB.html

Mitre CVE Dictionary Links:

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-20858

FIRST CVSSv3 Calculator:
https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

2023-02-21 VMSA-2023-0004
Initial security advisory.

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