| Title | VMware vSphere Client (HTML5) - Remote Code Execution |
|---|---|
| Author | dwisiswant0 |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system. |
| Remediation | Apply the necessary security patches or updates provided by VMware to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.93821 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2021-21972 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve2021 cve vmware rce vcenter kev packetstorm vkev vuln |
VMware vCenter vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a remote code execution vulnerability in a vCenter Server plugin. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 may exploit this issue to execute commands with unrestricted privileges on the underlying operating system that hosts vCenter Server. This affects VMware vCenter Server (7.x before 7.0 U1c, 6.7 before 6.7 U3l and 6.5 before 6.5 U3n) and VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x before 4.2 and 3.x before 3.10.1.2).
GET /ui/vropspluginui/rest/services/getstatus HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.93 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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