CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-22010
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-09-23
- 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-400
Description
The vCenter Server contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in VPXD service. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 on vCenter Server may exploit this issue to create a denial of service condition due to excessive memory consumption by VPXD service.
Affected configurations
• vmware cloud foundation (>= 3.0 < 5.0)
• vmware vcenter server 6.7
• vmware vcenter server 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0020.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0020.html Patch, Vendor Advisory