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VMware ESXi 6.5 / 6.7 / 7.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2022-0020)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192466

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Synopsis

The remote VMware ESXi host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The remote VMware ESXi host is version 6.5, 6.7 or 7.0 and is affected by multiple vulnerabilities, as follows:

 - Intel microprocessor generations 6 to 8 are affected by a new Spectre variant that is able to bypass their retpoline mitigation in the kernel to leak arbitrary data. An attacker with unprivileged user access can hijack return instructions to achieve arbitrary speculative code execution under certain microarchitecture-dependent conditions. (CVE-2022-29901)

 - Non-transparent sharing of return predictor targets between contexts in some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authorized user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-26373)

 - Aliases in the branch predictor may cause some AMD processors to predict the wrong branch type potentially leading to information disclosure. (CVE-2022-23825)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Apply the appropriate patch or workaround as referenced in the vendor advisory.

See Also

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0020.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 192466

File Name: vmware_esxi_vmsa-2022-0020.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: remote

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/22/2024

Updated: 3/25/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-29901

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:vmware:esxi

Required KB Items: Host/VMware/release, Host/VMware/vsphere

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/12/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-23816, CVE-2022-23825, CVE-2022-26373, CVE-2022-28693, CVE-2022-29901

VMSA: 2022-0020