Security Advisory

CVE-2021-21972

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-02-24 16:42:05
Last updated 2026-08-12 03:55:37
Assigner vmware
CVSS score 9.8
State PUBLISHED

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).