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It joins the thousands of software providers rendered vulnerable to attack after the critical bug was identified in the widely used Log4j Java framework: If an attacker sends a specially crafted message (incl. The company is not alone albeit seemingly particularly badly exposed as a result of the issue.

The Dutch NCSC has a non-exhaustive list of non-exhaustive lists of vulnerable products here.
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Guidance on how to discover unknown instances of Log4j within your org.

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With regard to VMware’s Log4j exposure the company – as an example of just one vulnerable product – said the bug (CVE-2021-44228) had been “determined to impact vCenter Server 7.0.x, vCenter 6.7.x & vCenter 6.5.x via the Apache Log4j open source component it ships.” See the full list of exposed VM products and workarounds here.

Inserting a log4j payload into that header and making a request to the VCenter log in page result in exploitation.” Defenders unable to mitigate near-term may have to rely on a multiplicity of other defence techniques and double-down on post-intrusion detection and response as they await patches. VCenter will use the value in the HTTP X-Forwarded-For field as the “client” in the log message. When the SAMLRequest parameter is empty (or there is an issue parsing it) the system logs an error to /var/log/vmware/sso.log. They said: “VMWare VCenter’s log-in page ( /websso/SAML2/SSO/), requires the user to provide a SAMLRequest parameter. “Basically all VCenter instances should be trivially exploitable by a remote and unauthenticated attacker…” said researchers at security firm Rapid7, noted, confirming a tested POC that they published on Monday. Reports from AdvIntel meanwhile suggest the Conti ransomware group is now exploiting Log4shell attacks on vCenter Server for lateral movement (relying on other techniques for initial systems breach.) VMware vCenter server exploitation POC circulates UPDATED Monday December 20: Some 28 of the affected products remain unpatched over a week later, including the exploited-in-the-wild vCenter Server and the VMware vCenter Cloud Gateway. A proof-of-concept (POC) detailing how to exploit the vulnerability in VMware’s central management tool vCenter server landed on Monday suggesting widespread attacks may follow: it’s turned into a true race against the clock for defenders. “A malicious actor with network access to an impacted VMware product may exploit this issue to gain full control of the target system” the company said, confirming attacks in the wild. VMware's software is used by the British Army, T-Mobile, major banks and numerous other blue chips. These included the critical and widely deployed VMware vCenter Server, VMware Unified Access Gateway, VMware Horizon and numerous other offerings from the company.
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The company’s teams – like many in the industry putting in some heroic shifts – had managed to patch 15 of those products as The Stack published late Monday (December 13) but 25 of the affected software tools remained exposed to the pre-auth RCE. A VMware advisory showed CVSS 10 (as severe as it gets) vulnerability across every single exposed VMware product. Virtualisation giant VMware has confirmed that 40 of its products are exposed to the risk of attack and takeover by an unauthenticated remote user as a result of Log4j vulnerability exploitation. Updated 10:45 BST December 19 to confirm 28 products remain unpatched incl.
