CVE-2023-34060

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).

• CWE-306

• https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-3.0-687Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-4.0-512Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-5.0-143Vendor Advisory
• https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0026.htmlVendor Advisory
• https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-3.0-687Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-4.0-512Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Security-Update-5.0-143Vendor Advisory
• https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0026.htmlVendor Advisory

Published

Nov 14, 2023

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

• How Strix found a critical auth bypass in etcdStrix autonomously discovered a critical authentication bypass in etcd, later designated CVE-2026-33413.
• Autonomous PentestingAI agents that find and validate exploitable vulnerabilities like this one across your applications.
• PR ReviewsPentest every pull request so vulnerable code is caught before it ships to production.
• AI Penetration TestingHow AI-driven penetration testing continuously covers your attack surface.

• CVE-2023-34055In Spring Boot versions 2.7.0 - 2.7.17, 3.0.0-3.0.12 and 3.1…6.5
• CVE-2023-34056vCenter Server contains a partial information disclosure vul…4.3
• CVE-2023-34057VMware Tools contains a local privilege escalation vulnerabi…7.8
• CVE-2023-34058VMware Tools contains a SAML token signature bypass vulnerab…7.5
• CVE-2023-34059open-vm-tools contains a file descriptor hijack vulnerabilit…7
• CVE-2023-3406Path Traversal issue in M-Files Classic Web versions below 2…6.5
• CVE-2023-34061Cloud Foundry routing release versions from v0.163.0 to v0.2…7.5
• CVE-2023-34062In Reactor Netty HTTP Server, versions 1.1.x prior to 1.1.13…7.5
• CVE-2023-34063Aria Automation contains a Missing Access Control vulnerabil…8.3
• CVE-2023-34064Workspace ONE Launcher contains a Privilege Escalation Vulne…4.6
• CVE-2023-3407The Subscribe2 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-S…4.3
• CVE-2023-3408The Bricks theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site R…4.3