CVE-2023-34060

2023-11-1420:20:51

vmware

www.cve.org

vmware

cloud director

appliance

authentication bypass

ssh

management console

upgrade

vulnerability

photon os

10 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

42.9%

JSON

VMware 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 Cloud Director Appliance 10.5, a malicious actor with network access to the appliance can bypass login
restrictions when authenticating on port 22 (ssh) or port 5480 (appliance management console) . This bypass is not present on port 443 (VCD provider
and tenant login). On a new installation of VMware Cloud Director Appliance 10.5, the bypass is not present. VMware Cloud Director Appliance is impacted since it uses an affected version of sssd from the underlying Photon OS. The sssd issue is no longer present in versions of Photon OS that ship with sssd-2.8.1-11 or higher (Photon OS 3) or sssd-2.8.2-9 or higher (Photon OS 4 and 5).

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "product": "VMware Cloud Director Appliance (VCD Appliance)",
    "vendor": "n/a",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "10.5 if upgraded from 10.4.x or below."
      }
    ]
  }
]