vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-44225

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Nov 26, 2021
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In Keepalived through 2.2.4, the D-Bus policy does not sufficiently restrict the message destination, allowing any user to inspect and manipulate any property. This leads to access-control bypass in some situations in which an unrelated D-Bus system service has a settable (writable) property

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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