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VMware vCenter Server: CVE-2021-21972 (VMSA-2021-0002)

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VMware vCenter Server: CVE-2021-21972 (VMSA-2021-0002)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/24/2021
Created
02/26/2021
Added
07/25/2022
Modified
12/11/2023

Description

The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a remote code execution vulnerability in a vCenter Server plugin. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 may exploit this issue to execute commands with unrestricted privileges on the underlying operating system that hosts vCenter Server. This affects VMware vCenter Server (7.x before 7.0 U1c, 6.7 before 6.7 U3l and 6.5 before 6.5 U3n) and VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x before 4.2 and 3.x before 3.10.1.2).

Solution(s)

  • vmware-vcenter-server-upgrade-latest

References

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