CVE-2023-20864

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 70.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2023-04-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-502

Description

VMware Aria Operations for Logs contains a deserialization vulnerability. An unauthenticated, malicious actor with network access to VMware Aria Operations for Logs may be able to execute arbitrary code as root.

Affected products

VMware Aria Operations for Logs: from 8.10.2 before 8.12.0 — fixed in 8.12.0
VMware Cloud Foundation: from 4.0 through 4.5
VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight): VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight) 8.10.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: VMware Aria Operations for Logs 8.12.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0007.html
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0007.html

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