CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
96.2%
a. Updated Openwsman
Openwsman is a system management platform that implements the Web Services Management protocol (WS-Management). It is installed and running by default. It is used in the VMware Management Service Console and in ESXi.
The openwsman 2.0.0 management service on ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 is vulnerable to the following issue found by the SuSE Security-Team :
This vulnerability could potentially be exploited by users without valid login credentials.
Openwsman before 2.0.0 is not vulnerable to this issue. The ESXi 3.5 patch ESXe350-200808201-O-UG updated openwsman to version 2.0.0.
The ESX 3.5 patch ESX350-200808205-UG updated openwsman to version 2.0.0. These patches are installed as part of the ESX and ESXi Upgrade 2 release. The ESX patch can be installed individually.
Version Information and Workaround The following VMware KB articles provide information on how to obtain the version of openwsman in your environment and what a possible workaround for the issue might be.
ESXi 3.5 Refer to the VMware KB article at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1005818.
ESX 3.5 Refer to the VMware KB article at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006878.
Note: This vulnerability can be exploited remotely only if the attacker has access to the service console network.
Security best practices provided by VMware recommend that the service console be isolated from the VM network. Please see http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/726 for more information on VMware security best practices.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2008-2234 this issue.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from VMware Security Advisory 2008-0015.
# The text itself is copyright (C) VMware Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(52010);
script_version("1.18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-2234");
script_xref(name:"VMSA", value:"2008-0015");
script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2008-B-0064");
script_name(english:"VMSA-2008-0015 : Updated ESXi and ESX 3.5 packages address critical security issue in openwsman");
script_summary(english:"Checks esxupdate output for the patch");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote VMware ESXi host is missing a security-related patch."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"a. Updated Openwsman
Openwsman is a system management platform that implements the Web
Services Management protocol (WS-Management). It is installed and
running by default. It is used in the VMware Management Service
Console and in ESXi.
The openwsman 2.0.0 management service on ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 is
vulnerable to the following issue found by the SuSE Security-Team :
- Two remote buffer overflows while decoding the HTTP basic
authentication header
This vulnerability could potentially be exploited by users without
valid login credentials.
Openwsman before 2.0.0 is not vulnerable to this issue. The ESXi
3.5 patch ESXe350-200808201-O-UG updated openwsman to version 2.0.0.
The ESX 3.5 patch ESX350-200808205-UG updated openwsman to version
2.0.0. These patches are installed as part of the ESX and ESXi
Upgrade 2 release. The ESX patch can be installed individually.
Version Information and Workaround
The following VMware KB articles provide information on how to
obtain the version of openwsman in your environment and what a
possible workaround for the issue might be.
ESXi 3.5
Refer to the VMware KB article at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1005818.
ESX 3.5
Refer to the VMware KB article at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006878.
Note: This vulnerability can be exploited remotely only if the
attacker has access to the service console network.
Security best practices provided by VMware recommend that the
service console be isolated from the VM network. Please see
http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/726 for more
information on VMware security best practices.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project (cve.mitre.org)
has assigned the name CVE-2008-2234 this issue."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000034.html"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Apply the missing patch.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_cwe_id(119);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:vmware:esxi:3.5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/09/18");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2011/02/17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"VMware ESX Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/VMware/release", "Host/VMware/version");
script_require_ports("Host/VMware/esxupdate", "Host/VMware/esxcli_software_vibs");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("vmware_esx_packages.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/VMware/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "VMware ESX / ESXi");
if (
!get_kb_item("Host/VMware/esxcli_software_vibs") &&
!get_kb_item("Host/VMware/esxupdate")
) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
init_esx_check(date:"2008-09-18");
flag = 0;
if (esx_check(ver:"ESXi 3.5.0", patch:"ESXe350-200808501-I-SG")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:esx_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");