CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-21995

7.5 HIGH Published 2021-07-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-07-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

OpenSLP as used in ESXi has a denial-of-service vulnerability due a heap out-of-bounds read issue. A malicious actor with network access to port 427 on ESXi may be able to trigger a heap out-of-bounds read in OpenSLP service resulting in a denial-of-service condition.

Affected configurations

• vmware cloud foundation (>= 3.0 < 3.10.2) • vmware cloud foundation (>= 4.0 < 4.3) • vmware esxi 6.5 • vmware esxi 6.7 • vmware esxi 7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References