CVE-2021-21986

CRITICAL9.8

The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a vulnerability in a vSphere authentication mechanism for the Virtual SAN Health Check, Site Recovery, vSphere Lifecycle Manager, and VMware Cloud Director Availability plug-ins

Published May 26, 2021

Modified 1 years ago

Details

The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a vulnerability in a vSphere authentication mechanism for the Virtual SAN Health Check, Site Recovery, vSphere Lifecycle Manager, and VMware Cloud Director Availability plug-ins. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 on vCenter Server may perform actions allowed by the impacted plug-ins without authentication.

References

WEB

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162812/VMware-Security-Advisory-2021-0010.html

ADVISORY

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-21986

WEB

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0010.html

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Exploitability

Attack Vector