CVE-2023-20890

Aria Operations For Networks vulnerability

CVSS

7.2

EPSS

21.6%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

Aria Operations for Networks contains an arbitrary file write vulnerability. An authenticated malicious actor with administrative access to VMware Aria Operations for Networks can write files to arbitrary locations resulting in remote code execution.

Affected vendor

Vmware

Affected product

Aria Operations For Networks

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Published

2023-08-29

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring high privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 21.6% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2023-20890

Confirm whether Vmware Aria Operations For Networks is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2023-20890.
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