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CVE-2023-34052: VMware Aria Operations for Logs contains a deserialization vulnerability.

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 31/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.21% (FIRST EPSS).
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

VMware Aria Operations for Logs contains a deserialization vulnerability. A malicious actor with non-administrative access to the local system can trigger the deserialization of data which could result in authentication bypass.

HighCVSS 7.8 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

BDU:2023-07030

Published: Oct 20, 2023
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.2% · 12th percentile
CWE: CWE-502

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 31 / 40 · 7.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
vmware	aria operations for logs	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:aria_operations_for_logs

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

vmware aria operations for logs4.0
vmware aria operations for logs5.0
vmware aria operations for logs8.10.2
vmware aria operations for logs8.12

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (vmware). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

n/a VMware Aria Operations for Logs
- VMware Aria Operations for Logs 8.x, VMware Cloud Foundation (VMware Aria Operations for Logs) 5.x 4.xaffected

Same product

vmware: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2023-20864VMware Aria Operations for Logs contains a deserialization vulnerability.
60This week
CVE-2023-34051VMware Aria Operations for Logs contains an authentication bypass vulnerability.
53Plan
CVE-2025-22219VMware Aria Operations for Logs stored cross-site scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-22219)
36Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2023-20865Apr 20, 2023 · VMware Aria Operations for Logs contains a command injection vulnerability.
28Monitor
Later →CVE-2025-22218Jan 30, 2025 · VMware Aria Operations for Logs information disclosure vulnerability
30Monitor
Later →CVE-2025-22220Jan 30, 2025 · VMware Aria Operations for Logs broken access control vulnerability (CVE-2025-22220)
21Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

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Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

CVE-2023-340510 days apartVMware Aria Operations for Logs contains an authentication bypass vulnerability.
53Plan

Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

TR-23-0595 · Oct 23, 2023(VMware Güvenlik Güncellemesi)

All national notices →

Technical details

Attack conditions

Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-502 · Deserialization of Untrusted Data

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Root cause

Data received over the network is deserialized into the language’s native object format without verifying its source. Code paths inside the object can be triggered during deserialization.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-502 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

python

1payload = sock.recv(65536)
2job = pickle.loads(payload)

Fixed

python

1payload = sock.recv(65536)
2if not hmac.compare_digest(sign(payload), header_sig):
3    raise PermissionError("invalid signature")
4job = JobSchema.validate(json.loads(payload))

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

Object InjectionCAPEC-586likelihood: Medium · High

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0021.html

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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