CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-21981

7.8 HIGH Published 2021-04-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-04-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-269

Description

VMware NSX-T contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to an issue with RBAC (Role based access control) role assignment. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with local guest user account to assign privileges higher than their own permission level.

Affected configurations

• broadcom vmware nsx-t data center 3.1.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References