VMSA-2019-0004:VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers update resolves a Remote Session Hijack vulnerability
VMSA-2019-0004
VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers update resolves a Remote Session Hijack vulnerability
VMware Security Advisory
1. Summary
VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers update resolves a Remote Session Hijack vulnerability
2. Relevant Products
-VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers (vCD)
3. Problem Description
VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers update resolves a Remote Session Hijack vulnerability in the Tenant and Provider Portals. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow a malicious actor to access the Tenant or Provider Portals by impersonating a currently logged in session.
VMware would like to thank Tyler Flaagan, Eric Holm, Andrew Kramer, and Logan Stratton of Dakota State University for reporting this issue to us.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2019-5523 to this issue.
Column 5 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.
VMware Product | Product Version | Running On | Severity | Replace_with/Apply_Patch | Mitigation/Workaround |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
vCD | 9.7.x | Any | N/A | Unaffected | None |
vCD | 9.5.x | Any | Critical | 9.5.0.3 | None |
vCD | 9.1.x | Any | N/A | Unaffected | None |
vCD | 9.0.x | Any | N/A | Unaffected | None |
4. Solution
Please review the patch/release notes for your product and version and verify the checksum of your downloaded file.
VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers 9.5.0.3
Documentation and Downloads:
6. Change log
2019-03-28: VMSA-2019-0004
Initial security advisory in conjunction with the release of VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers 9.5.0.3 on 2019-03-28.
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