vulnerability
vCenter Server XML parsing denial-of-service vulnerability (VMSA-2021-0020) (CVE-2021-21992)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Sep 21, 2021 | Jan 21, 2022 | Feb 2, 2022 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Sep 21, 2021
Added
Jan 21, 2022
Modified
Feb 2, 2022
Description
The vCenter Server contains a denial-of-service vulnerability due to improper XML entity parsing. A malicious actor with non-administrative user access to the vCenter Server vSphere Client (HTML5) or vCenter Server vSphere Web Client (FLEX/Flash) may exploit this issue to create a denial-of-service condition on the vCenter Server host.
Solution
vmware-vcenter-cve-2021-21992-upgrade-latest
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