• VMware Workspace ONE Access (Access)
• VMware Identity Manager (vIDM)
• VMware vRealize Automation (vRA)
• VMware Cloud Foundation
• vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager

Multiple vulnerabilities were privately reported to VMware. Patches are available to remediate these vulnerabilities in affected VMware products.

VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager and vRealize Automation contain an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting local domain users. 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 with network access to the UI may be able to obtain administrative access without the need to authenticate.

To remediate CVE-2022-22972, apply the patches listed in the 'Fixed Version' column of the 'Resolution Matrix' found below.

Workarounds for CVE-2022-22972 have been documented in the VMware Knowledge Base articles listed in the 'Workarounds' column of the 'Response Matrix' below.

A supplemental blog post was created for additional clarification. Please see: https://via.vmw.com/vmsa-2022-0014-qna

05/26: VMware has confirmed malicious code that can exploit CVE-2022-22972 in impacted products is publicly available.

VMware would like to thank Bruno López of Innotec Security for reporting this vulnerability to us.

VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager contain a privilege escalation vulnerability. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Important severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 7.8.

A malicious actor with local access can escalate privileges to 'root'. 

To remediate CVE-2022-22973 apply the patches listed in the 'Fixed Version' column of the 'Resolution Matrix' found below.

None.

A supplemental blog post was created for additional clarification. Please see: https://via.vmw.com/vmsa-2022-0014-qna

None.

VMware would like to thank Kai Zhao of ToTU Security Team and Steven Yu for independently reporting this issue to us.

[1] vRealize Automation 8.x is unaffected since it does not use embedded vIDM. If vIDM has been deployed with vRA 8.x, fixes should be applied directly to vIDM.
[2] vRealize Automation 7.6 is affected since it uses embedded vIDM.

Fixed Version(s): https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/88438
Workarounds: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/88433

Mitre CVE Dictionary Links:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-22972
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-22973

FIRST CVSSv3 Calculator:
CVE-2022-22972: https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE-2022-22973: https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

2022-05-18: VMSA-2022-0014
Initial security advisory.

2022-05-27: VMSA-2022-0014.1
05/26: Updated advisory with information that VMware has confirmed malicious code that can exploit CVE-2022-22972 in impacted products is publicly available.

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