CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-21992

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2021-09-22 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-09-22
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The vCenter Server contains a denial-of-service vulnerability due to improper XML entity parsing. A malicious actor with non-administrative user access to the vCenter Server vSphere Client (HTML5) or vCenter Server vSphere Web Client (FLEX/Flash) may exploit this issue to create a denial-of-service condition on the vCenter Server host.

Affected configurations

• vmware cloud foundation (>= 3.0 < 3.10.2.2) • vmware cloud foundation (>= 4.0 < 4.3) • vmware vcenter server 6.5 • vmware vcenter server 6.7 • vmware vcenter server 7.0

References