CVE-2021-21992

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
n/aVMware vCenter Server, VMware Cloud FoundationVMware vCenter Server(7.x before 7.0 U2c, 6.7 before 6.7 U3o and 6.5 before 6.5 U3q) and VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x before 4.3 and 3.x before 3.10.2.2)affected

Weaknesses

  • XML parsing denial-of-service vulnerability

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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