2020/05

I just wanted to provide a quick post to bring attention to the latest VMware Security advisory VMSA-2020-0009. The products affected include: vRealize Operations 7.5.0 vRealize Operations 8.0.x vRealize Operations 8.1.0 If you utilize the vRealize Operations Application Remote Collector (ARC) appliance to monitor operating systems or applications via the Telegraf agents, you should immediately implement the workaround documented in VMware KB79031. While two vulnerabilities were announced, both relating to Salt, an open-source project by SaltStack, the authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2020-11651) received a CVSSv3 base score of 10.

VMware’s vRealize Operations is an excellent monitoring, analytics, and self-driving IT operations platform that supports numerous applications and infrastructure systems out of the box. Management packs are available from both VMware and third-parties to extend these out of the box capabilities to a wide variety of additional applications and infrastructure systems. Unfortunately, management packs aren’t available for every hardware device that you might need to monitor. In these situations, monitoring via SNMP might be your only choice.