CVE-2021-21991

2021-09-2218:59:08

vmware

www.cve.org

8.7 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

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).

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "VMware vCenter Server, VMware Cloud Foundation",
    "vendor": "n/a",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "VMware vCenter Server(7.x before 7.0 U2c, 6.7 before 6.7 U3o and 6.5 before 6.5 U3q) and VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x before 4.3 and 3.x before 3.10.2.2)"
      }
    ]
  }
]