CVE-2023-20880 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

VMware Aria Operations contains a privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with administrative access to the local system can escalate privileges to 'root'.

Published: 2023-05-12

Score: 6.7 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations)

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`VMware Aria Operations prior to 8.12`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:aria_operations::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation::::::::

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-25052	VMware Aria Operations contains a privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with administrative access to the local system can escalate privileges to 'root'.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00052.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0009.html

History

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-863
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Vmware Aria Operations Cloud Foundation

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published: 2023-05-12T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-01-27T17:53:37.308Z

Reserved: 2022-11-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-20880

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T09:21:33.085Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-05-12T21:15:09.173

Modified: 2025-01-27T18:15:32.653

Link: CVE-2023-20880

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

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