CVE-2021-21972

CRITICAL Year: 2021
CVSS v3 Score
9.8
Critical
CVSS v2 Score
10.0
Critical
Weakness Type
CWE-22
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Vulnerability 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).

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