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VMware vCenter Server: CVE-2021-21973: SSRF vulnerability

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VMware vCenter Server: CVE-2021-21973: SSRF vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
02/23/2021
Created
03/17/2022
Added
03/16/2022
Modified
05/03/2022

Description

The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains an SSRF (Server Side Request Forgery) vulnerability due to improper validation of URLs in a vCenter Server plugin. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Moderate severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 5.3.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-vcenter-upgrade-latest

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