Photon OS vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Photon OS is made by VMware. We track 6 published vulnerabilities in it, across 5 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Photon OS, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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None of Photon OS's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.
Which Photon OS flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 21%CVE-2020-3956High
VMware Cloud Director 10.0.x before 10.0.0.2, 9.7.0.x before 9.7.0.5, 9.5.0.x before 9.5.0.6, and 9.1.0.x before 9.1.0.4 do not properly handle input leading to a code injection vulnerability.
- 2.6%CVE-2022-22942High
The vmwgfx driver contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to gain access to files opened by other processes on the system through a dangling 'file' pointer.
- 2.5%CVE-2016-5333Critical
VMware Photos OS OVA 1.0 before 2016-08-14 has a default SSH public key in an authorized_keys file, which allows remote attackers to obtain SSH access by leveraging knowledge of the private key.
- 1.1%CVE-2020-10713High
A flaw was found in grub2, prior to version 2.06.
- 0.9%CVE-2021-22055Medium
The SchedulerServer in Vmware photon allows remote attackers to inject logs through \r in the package parameter.
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1 new flaw affects software Acme tracks
VMware Cloud Director 10.0.x before 10.0.0.2, 9.7.0.x before 9.7.0.5, 9.5.0.x before 9.5.0.6, and 9.1.0.x before 9.1.0.4 do not properly handle input leading to a code injection vulnerability. An authenticated actor may be able to send malicious traffic to VMware Cloud Director which may lead to arbitrary remote code execution. This vulnerability can be exploited through the HTML5- and Flex-based UIs, the API Explorer interface and API access.
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We track 6 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Photon OS, across 5 versions.
None of Photon OS's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.
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