Security Advisory

CVE-2021-21991

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-09-22 18:59:08
Last updated 2024-08-03 18:30:23
Assigner vmware
State PUBLISHED

Description

The vCenter Server contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability due to the way it handles session tokens. A malicious actor with non-administrative user access on vCenter Server host may exploit this issue to escalate privileges to Administrator on the vSphere Client (HTML5) or vCenter Server vSphere Web Client (FLEX/Flash).