VMware Photon OS

Part of the SSH-based OS identification family — see that page for the shared mechanism, credentials, and host key verification. Matches /etc/os-release’s ID field.

targets:
  - id: photon-host
    product: photon
    address: host.example.com
    credentials: linux-host-ssh

Verified live against the official top-level photon:5.0 image (Docker’s Official Images program — not vmware/photon’s own repo, which stops at 2.0): ID=photon, VERSION_ID=5.0.

CVE correlation

Not matched — a general-purpose distribution’s CVEs are package vulnerabilities, and the release number can’t say which packages have been patched since. See CVE correlation.

Lifecycle resolver

endoflife:photon.