vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-29662

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 31, 2021
Added
Jul 2, 2025
Modified
Jul 2, 2025

Description

The Data::Validate::IP module through 0.29 for Perl does not properly consider extraneous zero characters at the beginning of an IP address string, which (in some situations) allows attackers to bypass access control that is based on IP addresses.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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