About VMware vCloud Director

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VMware Cloud Director (previously known as vCloud Director) is a cloud service delivery platform utilized by public and private cloud suppliers to work and manage cloud infrastructure.

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CVE-2020-3956 was found by Citadelo penetration analyzers during a security review of a client's VMWare Cloud Director-based cloud infrastructure.

"A verified actor might have the option to send malicious traffic to VMware Cloud Director which may prompt self-assertive remote code execution. This defenselessness can be misused through the HTML5-and Flex-based UIs, the API Explorer interface, and API access," VMware clarified in a security advisory distributed on May 19, after the organization got done with releasing patches for a few versions of vCloud Director.

The analysts have given more insights regarding the powerlessness clarified how it tends to be misused, and shared an exploit.

The harm attackers can do after exploiting the defect is significant. They can:

  • ·       View content of the internal system database, including password hashes of any clients allocated to this infrastructure
  • ·       Alter the system database to take a remote virtual machines (VM) appointed to various companies withing Cloud Director
  • ·       Raise benefits from "Organization Administrator" (ordinarily a client account) to "System Administrator" with access to all cloud accounts (companies) as an attacker can change the hash for this record
  • ·       Alter the login page to Cloud Director, which permits the attacker to capture passwords of another client in plaintext, including System Administrator accounts
  • ·       Peruse other sensitive information related to clients.

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