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CVE-2023-20865

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-20865 is a command injection vulnerability in VMware Aria Operations for Logs and VMware Cloud Foundation. An attacker with administrative privileges can exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary commands as root. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.2) allows for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with low attack complexity. While not currently listed in CISA KEV, there is significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness and potential for future exploitation, though no public exploit code is yet available.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 8.6.0, < 8.12.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:aria_operations_for_logs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.0, <= 4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.2HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0170 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 5,537 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

vmwarevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0007.html
Vendor Advisory