DETECTION OVERVIEW
Risk Factors
This vCenter plugin vulnerability is well known and requires network access to port 443 on a vCenter server. An unauthenticated attacker can leverage public exploit code to gain complete control of a device or escalate privileges to spread malware, such as ransomware, across the network.
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The VMware vSphere Client (HTML5) component of VMware vCenter enables the management of virtual environments for Windows and Linux hosts. vCenter has default plugins that monitor vSphere Client connections. A vulnerability in the Virtual SAN Health Check plugin (which is enabled by default) allows an unauthenticated attacker to successfully access classes and methods from a vulnerable endpoint (/ui/h5-vsan/rest/proxy/service) on port 443. The attacker can leverage vulnerable endpoints to look up a malicious class on the victim server, resulting in remote code execution (RCE) on the vCenter server through Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) injection.
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