CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-31680

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Published: Oct 07, 2022 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
9.1
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The vCenter Server contains an unsafe deserialisation vulnerability in the PSC (Platform services controller). A malicious actor with admin access on vCenter server may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system that hosts the vCenter Server.

Weakness

The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Vcenter_server Vmware * 6.5 (excluding)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5 (including) 6.5 (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-a (including) 6.5-a (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-b (including) 6.5-b (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-c (including) 6.5-c (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-d (including) 6.5-d (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update1 (including) 6.5-update1 (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update1b (including) 6.5-update1b (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update1c (including) 6.5-update1c (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update1d (including) 6.5-update1d (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update1e (including) 6.5-update1e (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update1g (including) 6.5-update1g (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update2 (including) 6.5-update2 (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update2b (including) 6.5-update2b (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update2c (including) 6.5-update2c (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update2d (including) 6.5-update2d (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update2g (including) 6.5-update2g (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update3 (including) 6.5-update3 (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update3d (including) 6.5-update3d (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update3f (including) 6.5-update3f (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update3k (including) 6.5-update3k (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update3n (including) 6.5-update3n (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update3p (including) 6.5-update3p (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update3q (including) 6.5-update3q (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update3r (including) 6.5-update3r (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update3s (including) 6.5-update3s (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update3t (including) 6.5-update3t (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update3u (including) 6.5-update3u (including)

Potential Mitigations

  • Make fields transient to protect them from deserialization.
  • An attempt to serialize and then deserialize a class containing transient fields will result in NULLs where the transient data should be. This is an excellent way to prevent time, environment-based, or sensitive variables from being carried over and used improperly.

References