cve-2021-21991
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-09-22 18:59
Modified
2024-08-03 18:30
Severity ?
Summary
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).
References
security@vmware.comhttps://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0020.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0020.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a VMware vCenter Server, VMware Cloud Foundation 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)
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