CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-5333

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2016-08-31 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-08-31
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-798

Description

VMware Photos OS OVA 1.0 before 2016-08-14 has a default SSH public key in an authorized_keys file, which allows remote attackers to obtain SSH access by leveraging knowledge of the private key.

Affected configurations

• vmware photon os (<= 1.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials weakness

References