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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.8 Critical

CVE-2021-21972

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 ex

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
vmware

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).

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

n/a VMware vCenter Server

  • 7.x before 7.0 U1caffected
  • 6.7 before 6.7 U3laffected
  • 6.5 before 6.5 U3naffected

n/a VMware Cloud Foundation

  • 4.x before 4.2affected
  • 3.x before 3.10.1.2affected

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