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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-2816

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:N)
Published
Jun 2, 2023
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Consul and Consul Enterprise allowed any user with service:write permissions to use Envoy extensions configured via service-defaults to patch remote proxy instances that target the configured service, regardless of whether the user has permission to modify the service(s) corresponding to those modified proxies.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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