The remote VMware ESXi host is version 6.5, 6.7 or 7.0 and is affected by multiple vulnerabilities, as follows:

  - Intel microprocessor generations 6 to 8 are affected by a new Spectre variant that is able to bypass their     retpoline mitigation in the kernel to leak arbitrary data. An attacker with unprivileged user access can hijack     return instructions to achieve arbitrary speculative code execution under certain microarchitecture-dependent     conditions. (CVE-2022-29901)

  - Non-transparent sharing of return predictor targets between contexts in some Intel(R) Processors may allow an     authorized user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-26373)

  - Aliases in the branch predictor may cause some AMD processors to predict the wrong branch type potentially leading     to information disclosure. (CVE-2022-23825)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update of the linux package has been released.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
192466	VMware ESXi 6.5 / 6.7 / 7.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2022-0020)	Nessus	Misc.	3/22/2024	3/25/2024	medium
151965	Photon OS 4.0: Linux PHSA-2021-4.0-0065	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	7/22/2021	3/23/2026	high

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