vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2020-25284
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | Sep 13, 2020 | Jan 20, 2025 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 13, 2020
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026
Description
The rbd block device driver in drivers/block/rbd.c in the Linux kernel through 5.8.9 used incomplete permission checking for access to rbd devices, which could be leveraged by local attackers to map or unmap rbd block devices, aka CID-f44d04e696fe.
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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