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VMware Vcenter and Cloud foundation critical vulnerability CVE-2023-34048

25 October

Summary

VMware has released a critical vulnerability (CVE-2023-34048) notification for their VMWare vCenter Server and VMware Cloud Foundation. The vulnerability received a CVSSv3 9.8 score. An attacker with network access to the vCenter Server may trigger an out-of-bounds write with the possibility of performing remote code execution. An information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2023-34056) was also found.

Affected products

VMware vCenter Server 8.0

VMware vCenter Server 7.0

VMware Cloud Foundation (VMware vCenter Server) 5.x and 4.x

Security resolution

Vmware has released security patches on 25th October addressing the the critical vulnerability and an information disclosure vulnerability:

VMware vCenter Server 8.0U2

VMware vCenter Server 8.0u1d

VMware vCenter Server 7.0U3o

VMware Cloud Foundation (VMware vCenter Server) KB88287

 

More information can be found here.