VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers 9.5.0.0/9.5.0.1/9.5.0.2 Portal Impersonation session fixiation
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A vulnerability was found in VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers 9.5.0.0/9.5.0.1/9.5.0.2 (Cloud Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Portal. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a session fixiation vulnerability (Impersonation). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-384. Authenticating a user, or otherwise establishing a new user session, without invalidating any existing session identifier gives an attacker the opportunity to steal authenticated sessions. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers 9.5.x prior to 9.5.0.3 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.
The bug was discovered 03/28/2019. The weakness was published 04/01/2019 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at vmware.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-5523 since 01/07/2019. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.
The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 4 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 371728 (VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers Remote Session Hijack Vulnerability (VMSA-2019-0004)).
Upgrading to version 9.5.0.3 eliminates this vulnerability.
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CPE 2.3
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Exploiting
Name: ImpersonationClass: Session fixiation / Impersonation
CWE: CWE-384
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Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: vCloud Director for Service Providers 9.5.0.3
Timeline
01/07/2019 🔍03/28/2019 🔍
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04/02/2019 🔍
08/21/2023 🔍
Sources
Vendor: vmware.comAdvisory: 152289
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2019-5523 (🔍)
SecurityFocus: 107638
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20060413
Entry
Created: 04/02/2019 08:15Updated: 08/21/2023 11:20
Changes: 04/02/2019 08:15 (61), 05/23/2020 16:24 (2), 08/21/2023 11:20 (5)
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