

Make sure that View-Active-Admin-users.sql shows at least 1 provisioned (usually from a Directory) administrator Run View-Active-Admin-users.sql to see all administrators (read-only administrators also included) and run View-Active-Local-users.sql to see all local users who will be disabled.VMware has also published the workaround for those who do not want to change the versions of VMware products: Run the patch script using the command.Navigate to the files within the unzipped folder using the command: cd HW-156875-Appliance.Unzip the file using the command: unzip HW-156875-Appliance-.zip.Tools such as WinSCP can also be used to transfer the file to the appliance. VMware recommends SCP protocol to transfer the file to the appliance. This .zip file can be saved anywhere on the file system. Download and transfer HW-156875-Appliance-.zip to the virtual appliance.Login as sshuser, sudo to root-level access.You can follow the steps below to apply the patches for the vulnerable products: You can use the link below to download the required patch files: Product Component

You can see all of the affected versions of the VMware products below:

It requires the threat actor to be able to access the system locally then he can escalate the privileges to the “root” level. This vulnerability allows obtaining administrative access without authentication for the malicious actors with network access to network UI.ĬVE-2022-22973 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability that affects VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager. Administrative access without authenticationĬVE-2022-22972 is an authentication bypass vulnerability that affects VMware Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager, and vRealize Automation.

The new vulnerabilities, which can be tracked as CVE-2022-22972 and CVE-2022-22973 are also affecting Access and some other products and they have CVSS scores of 9.8 and 7.8, respectively. VMware has fixed another batch of vulnerabilities, approximately one month after the ones which were found in the VMware Workspace ONE Access.
