Impact of CVE-2023-46604

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Vulnerability ID: CVE-2023-46604:

• Vulnerability Summary: The Java OpenWire protocol marshaller is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution. This vulnerability may allow a remote attacker with network access to either a Java-based OpenWire broker or client to run arbitrary shell commands by manipulating serialized class types in the OpenWire protocol to cause either the client or the broker (respectively) to instantiate any class on the classpath. Users are recommended to upgrade both brokers and clients to version 5.15.16, 5.16.7, 5.17.6, or 5.18.3 which fixes this issue.

Article discusses impact of CVE on NCM. 

Environment

NCM 10.X

Cause

The file activemq-broker-5.16.4.jar, mentioned in CVE-2023-46604, resides in the following two NCM directories:

/opt/smarts-ncm/Transformation/lib/

/opt/smarts-ncm/cm/daemon/lib/

Resolution

The vulnerable component "OpenWire protocol" as mentioned in the CVE is not being used by NCM thus NCM is not impacted from this vulnerability.