CVE-2021-21973

MEDIUM5.3

The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains an SSRF (Server Side Request Forgery) vulnerability due to improper validation of URLs in a vCenter Server plugin

Published Feb 24, 2021

Modified 4 months ago

Details

The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains an SSRF (Server Side Request Forgery) vulnerability due to improper validation of URLs in a vCenter Server plugin. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 may exploit this issue by sending a POST request to vCenter Server plugin leading to information disclosure. 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

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2021-21973

ADVISORY

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-21973

WEB

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0002.html

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Exploitability

Attack Vector