Description

The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a remote code execution vulnerability in a vCenter Server plugin. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Critical severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 9.8.

Remediation

Upgrade to the latest version of VMware vCenter.

References

VMSA-2021-0002

Unauthorized RCE in VMware vCenter

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2021-21972 CWE-78 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Code Execution