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Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (VMWFED1769279335)

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Rankiteo Incident Impact-7
Company Score Before Incident802 / 1000
Company Score After Incident795 / 1000
Company LinkView VMware Profile
INCIDENT NUMBERVMWFED1769279335
Type of Cyber IncidentVulnerability
ATTACK VECTORNetwork access to vCenter Server via DCERPC protocol
DATA EXPOSEDNA
INCIDENT DATE15/06/2024
STATUSActive exploitation confirmed, remediation deadline set for FCEB agencies

Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis

  • Timeline of VMware's Vulnerability and lateral movement inside company's environment.
  • Overview of affected data sets, including SSNs and PHI, and why they materially increase incident severity.
  • How Rankiteo’s incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score.
  • How this cyber incident impacts VMware Rankiteo cyber scoring and cyber rating.
  • Rankiteo’s MITRE ATT&CK correlation analysis for this incident, with associated confidence level.

Full Incident Analysis Transcript

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the VMware breach identified under incident ID VMWFED1769279335.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of VMware's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmware, the number of followers: 2049076, the industry type: Software Development and the number of employees: 12343 employees

After the initial compromise, the video explains how Rankiteo's incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score. The incident score before the incident was 802 and after the incident was 795 with a difference of -7 which is could be a good indicator of the severity and impact of the incident.

In the next step of the video, we will analyze in more details the incident and the impact it had on VMware and their customers.

Broadcom (VMware) recently reported "Critical VMware vCenter Vulnerability Added to CISA’s Exploited Flaws Catalog", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.

CISA has added CVE-2024-37079, a critical vulnerability in Broadcom’s VMware vCenter Server, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog after confirming active exploitation in the wild.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting VMware vCenter Server, virtualized infrastructure.

In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Network segmentation to restrict vCenter access to trusted administrative networks, and began remediation that includes Upgrade to the latest secure versions of vCenter Server.

The case underscores how Active exploitation confirmed, remediation deadline set for FCEB agencies, and recommending next steps like Upgrade to the latest secure versions of vCenter Server, implement network segmentation, monitor for anomalous DCERPC traffic, and audit access logs for unauthorized attempts.

Finally, we try to match the incident with the MITRE ATT&CK framework to see if there is any correlation between the incident and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a knowledge base of techniques and sub-techniques that are used to describe the tactics and procedures of cyber adversaries. It is a powerful tool for understanding the threat landscape and for developing effective defense strategies.

MITRE ATT&CK® Correlation Analysis

Rankiteo's analysis has identified several MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques associated with this incident, each with varying levels of confidence based on available evidence. Under the Initial Access tactic, the analysis identified Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating cVE-2024-37079 allows unauthenticated attackers with network access to execute remote code. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating out-of-bounds write issue in DCERPC protocol implementation allows remote code execution. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating compromised vCenter Server could enable lateral movement across virtualized infrastructure. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating potentially gain full control of affected systems via vCenter Server compromise. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating no user interaction required for exploitation, increasing appeal to initial access brokers and Disable or Modify Cloud Firewall (T1562.007) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating network segmentation recommended to restrict vCenter access to trusted networks. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Resource Hijacking (T1496) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating potential full control of virtualized environments, lateral movement. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.

Initial Access
Exploit Public-Facing Application (90%)
Execution
Exploitation for Client Execution (90%)
Lateral Movement
Exploitation of Remote Services (80%)
Privilege Escalation
Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (70%)
Defense Evasion
Valid Accounts (50%)
Disable or Modify Cloud Firewall (40%)
Impact
Resource Hijacking (60%)

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