VMware Tools updates address a SAML Token Signature Bypass Vulnerability (CVE-2023-20900)

VMware released security advisory VMSA-2023-0019 with Low severity affecting VMware Tools for Windows and Linux.

The fix is available in VMware Tools v12.3.0 for Windows available in the VSS-Windows Content Library as Item VMware-Tools-windows-12.3.0-22234872 (see Windows section below) and Linux via open-vm-tools package or patch (see Linux section below).

How-To Remediate

Windows

ITS Private Cloud CLI

1. Mount the VMware Tools ISO VMware-Tools-windows-12.3.0-22234872 with the vss-cli:

   vss-cli compute vm set <id> cd up --backing VMware-Tools-windows-12.3.0-22234872 1

2. Proceed with the installation in the OS.

ITS Private Cloud Portal

1. Login to the https://cloud-portal.eis.utoronto.ca

2. Look for your VM and click on the Edit button.

3. Mount the VMWare Tools ISO VMware-Tools-windows-12.3.0-2223487.

4. Proceed with the installation in the OS.

Linux

• A new open-vm-tools version is available at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-12.3.0.

• A patch for existing open-vm-tools releases is provided in the CVE-2023-20900 README file.

Ubuntu, Debian and related OS

You can update the open-vm-tools package with the following command:

RedHat, Fedora, CentOS and related

You can update the open-vm-tools package with the following command:

Red Hat 7 / Fedora / CentOS 7

Red Hat 8 and 9

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-20900

• https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0019.html

• cve-2023-20900 | RedHat

• CVE-2023-20900 | SUSE