• VMware vRealize Operations
  
• VMware Cloud Foundation (Cloud Foundation) 
  
• vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager
  

Multiple vulnerabilities in VMware vRealize Operations were privately reported to VMware. Patches and Workarounds are available to address these vulnerabilities in impacted VMware products. 

The vRealize Operations Manager API contains a Server Side Request Forgery. VMware has evaluated this issue to be of 'Important' severity with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 8.6.

A malicious actor with network access to the vRealize Operations Manager API can perform a Server Side Request Forgery attack to steal administrative credentials.

To remediate CVE-2021-21975 apply the updates listed in the 'Fixed Version' column of the 'Response Matrix' below to impacted deployments.

Workarounds for CVE-2021-21975 have been listed in the 'Workarounds' column of the 'Response Matrix' below.

A FAQ was created which is listed in the 'Additional Documentation' column of the 'Response Matrix' below.

VMware would like to thank Egor Dimitrenko of Positive Technologies for reporting this vulnerability to us.

The vRealize Operations Manager API contains an arbitrary file write vulnerability. VMware has evaluated this issue to be of 'Important' severity with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 7.2.

An authenticated malicious actor with network access to the vRealize Operations Manager API can write files to arbitrary locations on the underlying photon operating system.

To remediate CVE-2021-21983 apply the updates listed in the 'Fixed Version' column of the 'Response Matrix' below to affected deployments.

Workarounds for CVE-2021-21983 have been listed in the 'Workarounds' column of the 'Response Matrix' below.

A FAQ was created which is listed in the 'Additional Documentation' column of the 'Response Matrix' below.

VMware would like to thank Egor Dimitrenko of Positive Technologies for reporting this vulnerability to us.

[1] The hotfixes previously mentioned in this advisory were found to only have partially resolved CVE-2021-21975 leaving a residual risk of moderate severity (CVSS = 4.3). Hotfixes created to resolve the vulnerabilities documented in VMSA-2021-0018 also include complete fixes for CVE-2021-21975.

[2] vRealize Operations Manager 8.4.0 shipped with the aforementioned incomplete fixes, and is therefore partially impacted by CVE-2021-21975.

Remediation and Workarounds:

vRealize Operations Manager
8.3.0: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/83210
8.2.0: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/83095
8.1.1: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/83094
8.0.1: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/83093
7.5.0: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/82367
7.0.0: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/83287

VMware Cloud Foundation (vROps)
4.x/3.x: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/83260

vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vROps)
8.x: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/83260

FIRST CVSSv3 Calculator:
CVE-2021-21975 - https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.0#CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVE-2021-21983 - https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.0#CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Mitre CVE Dictionary Links:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-21975
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-21983

2021-03-30: VMSA-2021-0004
Initial security advisory.

2021-03-31: VMSA-2021-0004.1
Updated advisory with information on vROps 7.0.0 workarounds.

2021-08-24: VMSA-2021-0004.2
Updated advisory with information that fixes for CVE-2021-21975 were incomplete.

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