Security News > 2023 > August > Critical Vulnerability Alert: VMware Aria Operations Networks at Risk from Remote Attacks

VMware has released software updates to correct two security vulnerabilities in Aria Operations for Networks that could be potentially exploited to bypass authentication and gain remote code execution.
"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," the company said in an advisory.
The second weakness, CVE-2023-20890, is an arbitrary file write vulnerability impacting Aria Operations for Networks that could be abused by an adversary with administrative access to write files to arbitrary locations and achieve remote code execution.
The vulnerabilities, which affect VMware Aria Operations Networks versions 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5.1, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, and 6.10, have been addressed in a series of patches released by VMware for each of the versions.
The virtualization services provider said that version 6.11.0 comes with fixes for the two flaws.
With security issues in VMware becoming a lucrative target for threat actors in the past, it's imperative that users move quickly to update to the latest version to safeguard against potential threats.
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Related Vulnerability
DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
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2023-08-29 | CVE-2023-20890 | Path Traversal vulnerability in VMWare Aria Operations for Networks Aria Operations for Networks contains an arbitrary file write vulnerability. An authenticated malicious actor with administrative access to VMware Aria Operations for Networks can write files to arbitrary locations resulting in remote code execution. | 7.2 |