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#VMWARE HORIZON HACKERS UNDER EXPLOIT BY PATCH#
#VMWARE HORIZON HACKERS UNDER EXPLOIT BY SOFTWARE#

#VMWARE HORIZON HACKERS UNDER EXPLOIT BY PATCH#

Mike Hamilton, former vice chairman of the DHS State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Government Coordinating Council and current CISO at CI Security, says that, with a patch deployed, it's now a competition between systems being updated and threat actors attempting to steal credentials. Otherwise, SAML assertions could be forged, granting access to numerous resources," the alert says. "It is critical when running products that perform authentication that the server and all the services that depend on it are properly configured for secure operation and integration.

The vulnerability is exploited via a command injection that leads to the installation of a web shell and follows in malicious activity taking place, in which credentials in the form of Security Assertion Markup Language authentication assertions are generated and sent to Microsoft's Active Directory Federation Services, which in turn grants the actors access to protected data, the alert says. That software's interface typically runs over port 8443, but it could run over any user-defined port, the alert says.

#VMWARE HORIZON HACKERS UNDER EXPLOIT BY SOFTWARE#

Also adding to the difficulty level for any hacker is the requirement to set the password at the time the software is deployed, eliminating the need for a default password that could be found and exploited by an attacker. ExploitationĮxploiting this vulnerability is not simple, the NSA notes, as it requires authenticated password-based access to the management interface of the device, which is encrypted with TLS. VMware strongly encourages all customers to please visit VMSA-2020-0027 as the centralized source of information for this issue, the company tells Information Security Media Group.

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The issue centers on a command injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-4006, for which VMware issued a patch on Thursday. The NSA did not explain how it attributed this activity to Russian state-sponsored actors, nor which federal agencies may have been targeted so far. "Russian state-sponsored malicious cyber actors are exploiting a vulnerability in VMware Access and VMware Identity Manager products, allowing the actors access to protected data and abusing federated authentication," the NSA says. Department of Defense and Defense Industrial Base network administrators to prioritize mitigation of the vulnerability on affected servers. The NSA is encouraging the National Security System, the U.S.

Several VMware Access and VMware Identity Manager products are covered by the alert, and the NSA is warning that a successful attacker can execute commands with unrestricted privileges on the underlying operating system. See Also: Now OnDemand | C-Suite Round-up: Connecting the Dots Between OT and Identity National Security Agency on Monday issued a warning that Russian state-sponsored threat actors are attempting to exploit a known vulnerability in several VMware products, and federal agencies should apply fixes as soon as possible.