This includes appliances for hybrid cloud tools like HCX, Cloud Gateway, Workspace ONE Access, and so on. Some VMware Cloud on AWS customers with overly permissive management gateway firewall rules have had action taken to reduce their exposure from scanning and exploit activity occurring across the Internet.Ĭustomers with on-premises components for VMware Cloud & hosted services should review the VMSA to determine if workarounds need to be implemented on those appliances. Customers will continue to see maintenance notifications where appropriate and can check service status at any time using and. VMware Cloud on AWS, Workspace ONE, and other VMware Cloud services customers are being actively protected with mitigations and patches, installed as part of the VMware commitment to security in the cloud shared responsibility model. You can also subscribe to Knowledge Base articles so that you are notified when an update occurs. Please subscribe to our Security Advisories mailing list (found on the right side of the VMSA page), and revisit the VMSA-2021-0028 advisory and this page periodically to get the latest information. Our VMSA-2021-0028: Questions & Answers document responds to the most common customer questions and includes all the links above. Log in the Shell: An Analysis of Log4Shell Exploitation.Investigating CVE-2021-44228 Log4Shell Vulnerability.Log4Shell – Log4j Remote Code Execution (CVE-2021-44228).VMware Security has a growing list of terrific resources dedicated to detecting, containing, and understanding the Log4j and Log4Shell vulnerabilities, including: This blog post, VMSA-2021-0028 & Log4j: What You Need to Know, will also be updated with new information as necessary. It also includes a longer list of resources, such as the Log4j Guidance, and common questions that are asked. VMSA-2021-0028: Questions & Answers is a corollary to the VMSA and addresses common customer questions.

VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2021-0028 is the source of truth for VMware’s response to this situation and these vulnerabilities, and has information about affected products, workarounds, and patches as they become available. Threat intelligence experts across the industry are observing active attacks based on these vulnerabilities, especially against workloads accessible from the Internet. The updated advisory means that all systems should be reevaluated. This update needs your immediate attention because the log4j component is used by many vendors and software packages, not just in VMware products, but also for all other software in your environment.

These advisories outline critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in the Log4j component, scoring 10 of 10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) for all affected VMware products. An updated workaround for CVE-2021-44228, as well as guidance on a second vulnerability, CVE-2021-45046 was released by the Apache Software Foundation on December 14. On DecemVMware released VMSA-2021-0028 to track the impact of an Apache Software Foundation security advisory for their extremely popular Log4j Java logging component on VMware products and services. There are also regular scheduled updates and a growing list of Q&A over at the VMSA-2021-0028: Questions & Answers page. Update: VMSA-2021-0028 continues to evolve to follow updated recommendations from the Apache Software Foundation.

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