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CVE-2023-34060 — VMware Cloud Director Appliance contains an authentication bypass vulnerability

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 applian

CVSS
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EPSS
0.07% (top 79.70%)
CWE
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Published
2023-11-14T20:20:51.972Z
Last modified
2025-12-16T18:23:21.416Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

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)…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
na / VMware Cloud Director Appliance (VCD Appliance)10.5 if upgraded from 10.4.x or below.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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