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RTM Locker is the latest enterprise-targeting ransomware operation found to be deploying a Linux encryptor that targets virtual machines on VMware ESXi servers.At the time, Trellix and MalwareHunterTeam had only seen a Windows ransomware encryptor, but as Uptycs reported yesterday, RTM has expanded its targeting to Linux and VMware ESXi servers.
VMware has fixed one critical and three important flaws in its VMware Workstation and Fusion virtual user session software.As explained by VMware, CVE-2023-20869 is a critical stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability in the functionality for sharing host Bluetooth devices with the virtual machine, which allows a malicious actor with local administrative privileges to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.
VMware has released updates to resolve multiple security flaws impacting its Workstation and Fusion software, the most critical of which could allow a local attacker to achieve code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20869, is described as a stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability that resides in the functionality for sharing host Bluetooth devices with the virtual machine.
VMware has released security updates to address zero-day vulnerabilities that could be chained to gain code execution systems running unpatched versions of the company's Workstation and Fusion software hypervisors. The two flaws were part of an exploit chain demoed by the STAR Labs team's security researchers one month ago, during the second day of the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023 hacking contest.
VMware has fixed two vulnerabilities in VMware Aria Operations for Logs, a widely used cloud solution for log analysis and management. CVE-2023-20864, a deserialization vulnerability, could be exploited by an unauthorized, malicious actor who has network access to VMware Aria Operations for Logs.
The Log4Shell hole was a security flaw in the logging process itself, and boiled down to the fact that many logfile systems allow you to write what almost amount to "Mini-programs" right in the middle of the text that you want to log, in order to make your logfiles "Smarter" and easier to read. For example, if you asked Log4J to log the text I AM DUCK, Log4J would do just that. This time round, the logging-related bug we're warning you about is CVE-2023-20864, a security hole in VMWare's Aria Operations for Logs product.
Cisco and VMware have released security updates to address critical security flaws in their products that could be exploited by malicious actors to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. The most severe of the vulnerabilities is a command injection flaw in Cisco Industrial Network Director, which resides in the web UI component and arises as a result of improper input validation when uploading a Device Pack.
VMware addressed a critical vRealize Log Insight security vulnerability that allows remote attackers to gain remote execution on vulnerable appliances. The bug is described as a deserialization vulnerability that can be abused to run arbitrary code as root on compromised systems.
On the third day of the Pwn2Own hacking contest, security researchers were awarded $185,000 after demonstrating 5 zero-day exploits targeting Windows 11, Ubuntu Desktop, and the VMware Workstation virtualization software. The highlight of the day was the Ubuntu Desktop operating system getting hacked three times by three different teams, although one of them was a collision with the exploit being previously known.
CISA has added a critical severity vulnerability in VMware's Cloud Foundation to its catalog of security flaws exploited in the wild. The flaw was found in the XStream open-source library used by vulnerable VMware products and has been assigned an almost maximum severity score of 9.8/10 by VMware.