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VMware warns of the public availability code for a critical vulnerability

November 3, 2022 | By Accorian

Last week, VMware has released security updates to address a critical remote code execution vulnerability in VMware Cloud Foundation. It is tracked as CVE-2021-39144 and has been assigned a CVSS score of 9.8.

The XStream open-source library contains the remote code execution flaw. Without any user interaction, unauthenticated attackers can take advantage of the vulnerability due to an unauthenticated endpoint that leverages XStream for input serialization in VMware Cloud Foundation. Due to the severity of the vulnerability the team has also released patches for end-of-life products.

VMware did, however, confirm over the weekend that the attack code exploiting CVE-2021-39144 has been released and is available to the public. VMware vCloud Foundation 3.11 is the fixed version released in response to this vulnerability and as well as for CVE-2022-31678, which is an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability that can cause a denial-of-service condition. 

Accorian suggests our clients upgrade their installs to the latest release.

Source: https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0027.html

Threat Advisory Team 

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