vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2020-13776

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jun 3, 2020
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

systemd through v245 mishandles numerical usernames such as ones composed of decimal digits or 0x followed by hex digits, as demonstrated by use of root privileges when privileges of the 0x0 user account were intended. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-1000082.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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