Authenticated escalation to root access
Published Oct 2, 2023 · Updated Sep 23, 2024
Privilege escalation in Pure Storage Purity//FA allows remote authenticated users with VMware administrator access to gain root access. The affected VMware vSphere VASA Service grants root privileges through an operation that Pure Storage has not publicly described. Exploitation requires a vSphere or ESXi administrator account with VASA access to the FlashArray and yields full root control of the array.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Pure Storage Purity//FA allows remote authenticated users with VMware administrator access to gain root access. The affected VMware vSphere VASA Service grants root privileges through an operation that Pure Storage has not publicly described. Exploitation requires a vSphere or ESXi administrator account with VASA access to the FlashArray and yields full root control of the array.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-36628
- Published
- Oct 2, 2023
- Updated
- Sep 23, 2024
- Vendor
- Pure Storage
- Product
- Purity//FA
- Classifications
- CWE-269, T1068
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Oct 2, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 23, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.1.*
- Affected versionversion=6.2.*
- Affected versionversion=6.3.0 <=6.3.11
- Affected versionversion=6.4.0 <=6.4.5
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