VMware Patches: Escalating Privileges? Not Anymore!
VMware fixed five vulnerabilities in its Aria Operations product, preventing mischief-makers from escalating privileges faster than a caffeinated squirrel on a power line. These fixes thwart potential XSS attacks, proving once again that even in cybersecurity, laughter truly is the best—well, maybe the second-best—medicine.
Hot Take:
VMware’s Aria Operations: Keeping hackers busier than a cat in a room full of laser pointers! With five vulnerabilities addressed, it’s like a cybersecurity whack-a-mole game over there. They’re so busy patching up holes, they might as well start a quilting club!
Key Points:
- VMware released patches for five vulnerabilities in its Aria Operations product, a cloud management platform.
- Two vulnerabilities allow local privilege escalation to root, rated with a CVSS score of 7.8.
- Three vulnerabilities enable stored cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, with CVSS scores ranging from 6.5 to 7.1.
- The fixed version for these vulnerabilities is 8.18.2, applicable to several VMware Cloud Foundation versions.
- No workarounds or additional documents were provided by VMware for these vulnerabilities.
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