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CRITICAL RCE FLAW CVE-2023-20887 IN VMWARE VREALIZE EXPLOITED IN THE WILD

June 21, 2023  By Pierluigi Paganini




VMWARE IS WARNING CUSTOMERS THAT CRITICAL REMOTE CODE EXECUTION VULNERABILITY
CVE-2023-20887 IS BEING ACTIVELY EXPLOITED IN ATTACKS.

VMware is warning customers that a critical remote code execution vulnerability
in Aria Operations for Networks (Formerly vRealize Network Insight), tracked as
CVE-2023-20887, is being actively exploited in the wild.

“VMware has confirmed that exploitation of CVE-2023-20887 has occurred in the
wild,” reads the advisory.


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In early June, Virtualization technology giant VMware released security patches
to address three critical and high-severity vulnerabilities, including the flaw
CVE-2023-20887.

VMware Aria Operations for Networks (formerly vRealize Network Insight) is a
network monitoring tool that helps organizations build an optimized, highly
available, and secure network infrastructure.

The vulnerability CVE-2023-20887 (CVSSv3 score of 9.8) is the most severe issue
addressed by the company, it is a Command Injection flaw.

“A malicious actor with network access to VMware Aria Operations for
Networks may be able to perform a command injection attack resulting in remote
code execution.” reads the advisory published by VMware.

GreyNoise CEO Andrew Morris confirmed that the flaw is actively exploited in the
wild.







The attacks observed by GreyNoise started on June 13 and originated from 2 IP
addresses.

Researchers pointed out that POC exploit code for the CVE-2023-20887 flaw is
available online.







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PIERLUIGI PAGANINI

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and
Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he
is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer.
Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security
expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical
Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that
security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security
blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US.
Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some
major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island,
Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security
magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency
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