{"id":176048,"date":"2023-11-15T01:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T07:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/urgent-vmware-warns-of-unpatched-critical-cloud-director-vulnerability"},"modified":"2023-11-15T01:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T07:22:21","slug":"urgent-vmware-warns-of-unpatched-critical-cloud-director-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/urgent-vmware-warns-of-unpatched-critical-cloud-director-vulnerability","title":{"rendered":"Urgent: VMware Warns of Unpatched Critical Cloud Director Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/urgent-vmware-warns-of-unpatched-critical-cloud-director-vulnerability.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udd98 VMware raises the alarm about an UNPATCHED security flaw (CVE-2023\u201334060) in Cloud Director, which could allow attackers to bypass authentication on SSH and appliance management console ports. Learn more \u27a1\ufe0f<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>VMware is warning of a critical and unpatched security flaw in Cloud Director that could be exploited by a malicious actor to get around authentication protections.<\/p>\n<p>Tracked as <strong>CVE-2023\u201334060<\/strong> (CVSS score: 9.8), the vulnerability impacts instances that have been upgraded to version 10.5 from an older version.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn an upgraded version of VMware Cloud Director Appliance 10.5, a malicious actor with network access to the appliance can bypass login restrictions when authenticating on port 22 (ssh) or port 5,480 (appliance management console),\u201d the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/security\/advisories\/VMSA-2023-0026.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in an alert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udd98 VMware raises the alarm about an UNPATCHED security flaw (CVE-2023\u201334060) in Cloud Director, which could allow attackers to bypass authentication on SSH and appliance management console ports. Learn more \u27a1\ufe0f VMware is warning of a critical and unpatched security flaw in Cloud Director that could be exploited by a malicious actor to get around [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}