vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-20867

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:M/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jun 13, 2023
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A fully compromised ESXi host can force VMware Tools to fail to authenticate host-to-guest operations, impacting the confidentiality and integrity of the guest virtual machine.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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