VMSA-2018-0011.2

Unauthenticated Command Injection vulnerability in VMware SD-WAN Edge by VeloCloud

VMware Security Advisory
 
VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID:
 VMSA-2018-0011.2
VMware Security Advisory Severity:
 Important
VMware Security Advisory Synopsis:
 Unauthenticated Command Injection vulnerability in VMware SD-WAN Edge by VeloCloud
VMware Security Advisory Issue date:
2018-05-15
VMware Security Advisory Updated on:
 2019-06-13
VMware Security Advisory CVE numbers:
 CVE-2018-6961
 
1. Summary

Unauthenticated Command Injection vulnerability in VMware SD-WAN Edge by VeloCloud

 
2. Relevant Products

 VMware SD-WAN Edge by VeloCloud (SD-WAN Edge)

 
3. Problem Description

Unauthenticated Command Injection vulnerability in VMware SD-WAN Edge by VeloCloud

VMware SD-WAN Edge by VeloCloud contains a command injection vulnerability in the local web UI component. This component is disabled by default and should not be enabled on untrusted networks. VeloCloud by VMware will be removing this service from the product in future releases. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in remote code execution.

 

VMware would like to thank Cory Mathews, Quentin Rhoads-Herrera, and Maggie Ligon of Critical Start and security researcher Brian Sullivan from Tevora for independently reporting this issue to us.

 

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2018-6961 to this issue.


Column 5 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.

VMware Product
Product Version
Running on
Severity
Replace with/ Apply Patch
Mitigation/ Workaround
VMware Product SD-WAN Edge
Product Version 3.x, 2.x
Running on Linux
Severity Important
Replace with/ Apply Patch R312-20180716-GA
Mitigation/ Workaround
KB55009  

 

 

4. Solution

 

Please review the patch/release notes for your product and version and verify the checksum of your downloaded file.

 

VMware SD-WAN Edge by VeloCloud R312-20180716-GA Support/Guidance:

https://kb.vmware.com/kb/53907

 

  

6. Change log

 

VMSA-2018-0011 2018-05-15

Initial security advisory in conjunction with the release of KB55009 on 2018-05-15.

 

VMSA-2018-0011.1 2018-06-28

Updated security advisory with the correct remediated version (SD-WAN Edge 3.1.2) since SD-WAN Edge 3.1.1 and earlier are still affected.

VMSA-2018-0011.2 2019-06-13
Updated security advisory with to clarify that R312-20180716-GA is the specific build in which CVE-2018-6961 was remediated.

 

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