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CVE-2016-5333
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-08-31T01:59:17.310 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:49:13.850

Summary

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 products

vmware — photon_os

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References

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