Fiche vulnérabilité
CVE-2021-21972 : faille exploitée vmware cloud foundation (CVSS 9.8)
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).
En bref
- Sévérité
- Critique (CVSS 9.8)
- Vecteur CVSS
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Exploitation active
- Oui, inscrite au catalogue CISA KEV
- Publication
- 24 févr. 2021
- Dernière mise à jour
- 12 août 2026
Produits concernés
- vmware cloud foundation
- vmware vcenter server
Correctif et mesures
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