CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-22050

7.5 HIGH Published 2022-02-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-02-16
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-770

Description

ESXi contains a slow HTTP POST denial-of-service vulnerability in rhttpproxy. A malicious actor with network access to ESXi may exploit this issue to create a denial-of-service condition by overwhelming rhttpproxy service with multiple requests.

Affected configurations

• vmware cloud foundation (>= 3.0 < 3.11) • vmware cloud foundation (>= 4.0 < 4.4) • vmware esxi 6.5 • vmware esxi 6.7 • vmware esxi 7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References