CVE-2016-5333 (GCVE-0-2016-5333)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-08-31 01:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:00
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
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.
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