CVE-2021-21982: VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance 1.0.0 and 1.01 has an authentication bypass vulnerability that may allow a malicious actor with network access to…

PriorityP260critical9.1CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUINSUCHIHAN

EPSS

1.36%

68.2th percentile

VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance 1.0.0 and 1.01 has an authentication bypass vulnerability that may allow a malicious actor with network access to the administrative interface of the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance to obtain a valid authentication token. Successful exploitation of this issue would result in the attacker being able to view and alter administrative configuration settings.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
vmware	carbon_black_cloud_workload	<= 1.0.1	—

Detection & IOCsextracted from sources · hover to see the quote

→The vulnerability involves URL manipulation on the administrative interface of the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance to bypass authentication and obtain a valid authentication token. ↗
→Monitor for unexpected or anomalous authentication token issuance from the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance administrative interface, which may indicate exploitation of the authentication bypass. ↗
→Monitor for unauthorized changes to administrative configuration settings on the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance, which may indicate post-exploitation activity following authentication bypass. ↗

·Only VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance versions 1.0.0 and 1.01 are confirmed affected by this authentication bypass vulnerability. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.19.1CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

nvdv2.06.4MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

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