VMSA-2023-0018

• Aria Operations for Networks 

Multiple vulnerabilities in Aria Operations for Networks were responsibly reported to VMware. Updates are available to remediate these vulnerabilities in affected VMware products.

Aria Operations for Networks contains an Authentication Bypass vulnerability due to a lack of unique cryptographic key generation. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the critical severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 9.8.

A malicious actor with network access to Aria Operations for Networks could bypass SSH authentication to gain access to the Aria Operations for Networks CLI.

To remediate CVE-2023-34039 apply the updates listed in the ‘Fixed Version’ column of the ‘Response Matrix’ below.

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None.

Aria Operations for Networks collectors are impacted by CVE-2023-34039, however, upgrading the platform appliance remediates this issue. 

VMware would like to thank Harsh Jaiswal and Rahul Maini at ProjectDiscovery Research for reporting this issue to us.

Aria Operations for Networks contains an arbitrary file write vulnerability. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the important severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 7.2.

An authenticated malicious actor with administrative access to VMware Aria Operations for Networks can write files to arbitrary locations resulting in remote code execution.

To remediate CVE-2023-20890 apply the updates listed in the ‘Fixed Version’ column of the ‘Response Matrix’ below.

None.

None.

None.

VMware would like to thank Sina Kheirkhah (@SinSinology) of Summoning Team (@SummoningTeam) for reporting this issue to us.

Fixed Version(s) and Release Notes:

VMware Aria Operations for Networks 6.11 Release Notes

Downloads and Documentation

https://customerconnect.vmware.com/en/downloads/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_aria_operations_for_networks/6_x

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations-for-Networks/services/rn/vmware-aria-operations-for-networks-release-notes/index.html

VMware Aria Operations for Networks 6.x HF: KB94152

Mitre CVE Dictionary Links:

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-34039

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-20890

FIRST CVSSv3 Calculator:

CVE-2023-34039: https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2023-20890: https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H  

2023-08-29 VMSA-2023-0018

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