{"id":30551,"date":"2023-06-23T09:52:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T07:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=30551"},"modified":"2023-06-23T09:52:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T07:52:14","slug":"vmware-patched-vulnerabilities-in-vcenter-server-june-22-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2023\/06\/23\/vmware-patched-vulnerabilities-in-vcenter-server-june-22-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware patched vulnerabilities in vCenter Server (June 22, 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" title=\"Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Sicherheit_klein.jpg\" alt=\"Sicherheit (Pexels, allgemeine Nutzung)\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/23\/vmware-schliet-schwachstellen-in-vcenter-server-22-juni-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">German<\/a>]VMware has released updates to its vCenter servers to patch important vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-20892, CVE-2023-20893, CVE-2023-20894, CVE-2023-20895 and CVE-2023-20896). In addition, the opportunity could also be used to update VMware tools to close the authentication vulnerability CVE-2023-20867.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vg08.met.vgwort.de\/na\/d2966f9fd8fa495db2208f18a3519b47\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>I had already seen the information about the vulnerabilities among others on Twitter from colleagues in the following <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleepinComputer\/status\/1671912973449789440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet<\/a>, but German blog reader Stefan K. had also informed me yesterday by mail (thanks for that) and wrote:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleepinComputer\/status\/1671912973449789440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"VMware patches vCenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Tx0sslW.png\" alt=\"VMware patches vCenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hello G\u00fcnter,<\/p>\n<p>might be worth a note that VMware has closed some vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-20892, CVE-2023-20893, CVE-2023-20894, CVE-2023-20895 and CVE-2023-20896) in vCenter Server.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Even though a vCenter Server should not be accessible from the Internet, there have been successful attacks in the past because some people dare to do it. You had reported: <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2023\/03\/04\/review-of-the-vmware-esxi-server-cyberdebacle-feb-2023\/\">Review of the VMware ESXi server cyberdebacle (Feb. 2023)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the action, the gap in the VMware tools can also be patched at the same time (CVE-2023-20867), even if it is not quite as critical.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>VMware published Security Advisory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/security\/advisories\/VMSA-2023-0014.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VMSA-2023-0014<\/a>, iwhich lists the vulnerabilities mentioned above. The company writes there:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>VMware has been notified of several vulnerabilities in VMware vCenter Server that corrupt memory. Updates are available to address these vulnerabilities in the affected VMware products.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Details on the vulnerabilities and affected product versions can be found in the Security Advisory. The following VMware products are affected:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VMware vCenter Server (vCenter Server)<\/li>\n<li>VMware Cloud Foundation (Cloud Foundation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>VMware has already released the following pages with release notes on June 21, 2023 (thanks to Stefan for the links).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-vSphere\/8.0\/rn\/vsphere-vcenter-server-80u1b-release-notes\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VMware vCenter Server 8.0 Update 1b Release Notes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-vSphere\/7.0\/rn\/vsphere-vcenter-server-70u3m-release-notes\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3m Release Notes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Information about updating VMware tools can be found in security advisory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/security\/advisories\/VMSA-2023-0013.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VMSA-2023-0013<\/a> dated June 13, 2023, where an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2023-20867) is reported. However, the CVSSv3 index is only rated 3.8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]VMware has released updates to its vCenter servers to patch important vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-20892, CVE-2023-20893, CVE-2023-20894, CVE-2023-20895 and CVE-2023-20896). In addition, the opportunity could also be used to update VMware tools to close the authentication vulnerability CVE-2023-20867.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,1547,22,1218],"tags":[69,1710],"class_list":["post-30551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-software","category-update","category-virtualization","tag-security","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}