ALAS2-2023-2250

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-20900  

VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor with man-in-the-middle (MITM) network positioning between vCenter server and the virtual machine may be able to bypass SAML token signature verification, to perform VMware Tools Guest Operations. (CVE-2023-20900)

ALAS2-2023-2250


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2250
Advisory Release Date: 2023-09-13 23:44 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-09-20 19:40 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor with man-in-the-middle (MITM) network positioning between vCenter server and the virtual machine may be able to bypass SAML token signature verification, to perform VMware Tools Guest Operations. (CVE-2023-20900)


Affected Packages:

open-vm-tools


Issue Correction:
Run yum update open-vm-tools to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    open-vm-tools-12.3.0-1.amzn2.aarch64
    open-vm-tools-desktop-12.3.0-1.amzn2.aarch64
    open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.3.0-1.amzn2.aarch64
    open-vm-tools-devel-12.3.0-1.amzn2.aarch64
    open-vm-tools-test-12.3.0-1.amzn2.aarch64
    open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.3.0-1.amzn2.aarch64

src:
    open-vm-tools-12.3.0-1.amzn2.src

x86_64:
    open-vm-tools-12.3.0-1.amzn2.x86_64
    open-vm-tools-desktop-12.3.0-1.amzn2.x86_64
    open-vm-tools-sdmp-12.3.0-1.amzn2.x86_64
    open-vm-tools-salt-minion-12.3.0-1.amzn2.x86_64
    open-vm-tools-devel-12.3.0-1.amzn2.x86_64
    open-vm-tools-test-12.3.0-1.amzn2.x86_64
    open-vm-tools-debuginfo-12.3.0-1.amzn2.x86_64