CVE-2021-21972

CRITICAL9.8

The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a remote code execution vulnerability in a vCenter Server plugin

Published Feb 24, 2021

Modified 4 months ago

Details

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).

References

WEB

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161590/VMware-vCenter-Server-7.0-Arbitrary-File-Upload.html

WEB

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161695/VMware-vCenter-Server-File-Upload-Remote-Code-Execution.html

WEB

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163268/VMware-vCenter-6.5-6.7-7.0-Remote-Code-Execution.html

WEB

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2021-21972

ADVISORY

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-21972

WEB