vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2020-13529

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 10, 2021
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in Systemd 245. A specially crafted DHCP FORCERENEW packet can cause a server running the DHCP client to be vulnerable to a DHCP ACK spoofing attack. An attacker can forge a pair of FORCERENEW and DCHP ACK packets to reconfigure the server.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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