VMware Security Updates – 26 July 2023

VMware has released security updates to fix multiple vulnerabilities in VMware SD-Wan and Tanzu Application Service.

The addressed vulnerabilities could allow the remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by improper authentication in SD-Wan and logging credentials in hex encoding in platform system audit logs in VMware Tanzu Application.

Sample of the addressed vulnerabilities:

VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs and VMware Isolation Segment Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CVE-2023-20891):

  • CVSS: 6.5
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: Low
  • User Interaction: None
  • Consequences: Obtain Information

Affected Products:

  • VMware SD-WAN (Edge) (5.x.x, 4.5.x).
  • VMware Tanzu Isolation Segment (4.0.x, 3.0.x, 2.13.x, 2.11.x).
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs (4.0.x, 3.0.x, 2.13.x, 2.11.x).
Vulnerabilities
  • CVE-2023-20891
  • CVE-2023-20899
Mitigations

The enterprise should deploy this patch as soon as the testing phase is completed.

VMware Security Advisory

References