CSP-90495 - Patch instructions to upgrade Angular XLTS

Products

• VMware

Issue/Introduction

This article provides important information for upgrading the Angular XLTS to 1.9.1 to maintain the license agreement and to fix the below vulnerabilities.
Affected version:

Product Component	Version(s)	Applicable CVE(s)
VMware Identity Manager Appliance	3.3.7	CVE-2023-26116  CVE-2023-26117  CVE-2023-26118

 

Environment

VMware Identity Manager 3.3.x

Resolution

Before You Begin:

• It is recommended to upgrade instances of unsupported versions to newer, supported versions first before applying the patch. This procedure will not work for other versions. Refer to the VMware Lifecycle Matrix for the list of supported versions of the product.
• It is strongly recommended to take a snapshot or backup of the Appliance(s) and the database server before applying the procedure
• Download the patches:

  Product Component	Version(s)
  VMware Identity Manager Appliance	3.3.7

Patch Deployment Procedure:

1. Login as sshuser, sudo to root level access
2. Download and transfer CSP-90495-Appliance-3.3.7.zip to the virtual appliance. This zip file can be saved anywhere on the file system. VMware recommends SCP protocol to transfer the file to the appliance. Tools such as winscp can also be used to transfer the file to the appliance.
3. Unzip the file using the command below.
           unzip CSP-90495-Appliance-3.3.7.zip -d CSP-90495-Appliance-3.3.7
4. Navigate to the files within the unzipped folder using the command below.
           cd CSP-90495-Appliance-3.3.7
5. Run the patch script using the below command
           ./CSP-90495-applyPatch.sh 

Note: If you are running a cluster deployment, repeat the steps above on all additional nodes of the cluster.


Patch Deployment Validations:
After the patch deployment, perform the below steps to confirm the patch has been applied successfully

1. Login as an Administrator to the VIDM Console and verify the System Diagnostics page is green.
2. If the patch is applied successfully you can find a flag file created as CSP-90495-3.3.7-hotfix.applied in /usr/local/horizon/conf/flags directory.
3. Login as a local administrator into the Service and navigate to the Legacy Connector page. Click on the Worker link and check whether the auth adapters load under the "Auth Adapters" tab. Click on any Enabled auth adapter and check if the page opens correctly. 
4. Perform Directory Sync to validate users/groups are synced.
5. Check in the UI portal, if all tabs open properly, including the cfg page https://<vidm-hostname>:8443
6. Check the Admin Portal and the Connectors page shows the version as "3.3.7.0 Build 23103647"

Additional Information

To revert this patch, you can revert to the appliance(s) snapshot and the database backup taken before applying these steps.