Photon OS
5 CVEs tracked. None of them is in CISA KEV.
This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Photon OS, a product in the operating systems space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.
Photon OS CVEs per month
| Month | CVEs |
|---|---|
| 2024-10 | 0 |
| 2024-11 | 0 |
| 2024-12 | 0 |
| 2025-01 | 0 |
| 2025-02 | 0 |
| 2025-03 | 0 |
| 2025-04 | 0 |
| 2025-05 | 0 |
| 2025-06 | 0 |
| 2025-07 | 0 |
| 2025-08 | 0 |
| 2025-09 | 0 |
| 2025-10 | 0 |
| 2025-11 | 0 |
| 2025-12 | 0 |
| 2026-01 | 0 |
| 2026-02 | 0 |
| 2026-03 | 0 |
| 2026-04 | 0 |
| 2026-05 | 0 |
| 2026-06 | 0 |
| 2026-07 | 0 |
| 2026-08 | 0 |
| 2026-09 | 0 |
Severity
How the 5 CVEs score on CVSS. Severity is not exploitation: KEV is counted above.
- Critical2
- High2
- Medium1
Latest CVEs
The 5 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Photon OS.
- CVE-2022-22942The vmwgfx driver contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to gain access to files opened by other processes on the system through a dangling 'file' pointer.7.8
- CVE-2023-34060VMware Cloud Director Appliance contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in case VMware Cloud Director Appliance was upgraded to 10.5 from an older version. On an upgraded version of VMware...9.8
- CVE-2021-22055The SchedulerServer in Vmware photon allows remote attackers to inject logs through \r in the package parameter. Attackers can also insert malicious data and fake entries.5.3
- CVE-2020-10713A flaw was found in grub2, prior to version 2.06. An attacker may use the GRUB 2 flaw to hijack and tamper the GRUB verification process. This flaw also allows the bypass of Secure Boot protections...8.2
- CVE-2016-5333VMware 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.9.8
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