Security News

VMware Patches Workspace ONE Access Vulnerability Reported by NSA
2020-12-04 18:25

VMware on Thursday released patches for a Workspace ONE Access security flaw that was identified and reported by the National Security Agency. Formerly VMware Identity Manager, Workspace ONE Access delivers multi-factor authentication, single sign-on, and conditional access functionality for SaaS, mobile and web applications.

VMware Rolls a Fix for Formerly Critical Zero-Day Bug
2020-12-04 15:31

VMware has patched a zero-day bug that was disclosed in late November - an escalation-of-privileges flaw that impacts Workspace One and other platforms, for both Windows and Linux operating systems. VMware has also revised the CVSS severity rating for the bug to "Important," down from critical.

VMware fixes zero-day vulnerability reported by the NSA
2020-12-04 07:45

VMware has released security updates to address a zero-day vulnerability in VMware Workspace One Access, Access Connector, Identity Manager, and Identity Manager Connector. Zero-day reported by the NSA. While initially, the company didn't disclose the identity of the organization or researcher who reported the vulnerability, VMware acknowledged the US Defense Department's intelligence agency contribution in an update to the security advisory made on Thursday.

VMware urges sysadmins to apply workarounds after critical Workspace command execution vuln found
2020-11-24 19:04

VMware has published a series of workarounds for critical command injection vulnerabilities in its Workspace One Access, Access Connector, Identity Manager and Identity Manager Connector products. A command injection vuln could allow malicious people who have network access to the "Administrative configurator on port 8443" together with "a valid password for the configurator admin account" to execute commands with "Unrestricted privileges on the underlying operating system," said VMware.

VMware Working on Patches for Critical Workspace ONE Access Vulnerability
2020-11-24 12:42

VMware on Monday published an advisory to inform users that it's working on patching a critical command injection vulnerability affecting Workspace ONE Access and some related components. VMware has not specified if technical details of the vulnerability have been disclosed or if it has been exploited in attacks.

VMware releases workarounds for another critical flaw (CVE-2020-4006)
2020-11-24 10:13

For the second time in less than a week, VMware is warning about a critical vulnerability. As some of these are components of the VMware Cloud Foundation and vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager product suites, those are impacted as well.

Critical Unpatched VMware Flaw Affects Multiple Corporates Products
2020-11-23 23:08

VMware has released temporary workarounds to address a critical vulnerability in its products that could be exploited by an attacker to take control of an affected system. Tracked as CVE-2020-4006, the command injection vulnerability has a CVSS score of 9.1 out of 10 and impacts VMware Workspace One Access, Access Connector, Identity Manager, and Identity Manager Connector.

Critical VMware Zero-Day Bug Allows Command Injection; Patch Pending
2020-11-23 21:46

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is warning of a zero-day bug affecting six VMware products including its Workspace One, Identity Manager and vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. The critical unpatched bug is a command injection vulnerability.

VMware discloses critical zero-day vulnerability in Workspace One
2020-11-23 14:53

VMware has released a workaround to address a critical zero-day in multiple VMware Workspace One components that allows attackers to execute commands on the host Linux and Windows operating systems using escalated privileges. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-4006 is a command injection bug - with a 9.1/10 CVSSv3 severity rating - found in the administrative configurator of some releases of VMware Workspace ONE Access, Access Connector, Identity Manager, and Identity Manager Connector.

VMware Fixes Critical Flaw in ESXi Hypervisor
2020-11-20 20:18

VMware has hurried out fixes for a critical flaw in its ESXi hypervisor, a few weeks after it was found during China's Tianfu Cup hacking competition. 360 ESG Vulnerability Research Institute is the only team to run the entry on VMware ESXi today.