medium5.3Known exploited
CVE-2021-21973
VMware vCenter Server and Cloud Foundation Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Vulnerability
Exploited in the wild
This vulnerability is on a Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, added 2022-03-07. Federal due date: 2022-03-21.
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Impact
The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains an SSRF (Server Side Request Forgery) vulnerability due to improper validation of URLs in a vCenter Server plugin. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 may exploit this issue by sending a POST request to vCenter Server plugin leading to information disclosure. 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).
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Vmware | Cloud Foundation | from 3.0 before 3.10.1.2 from 4.0 before 4.2 |
| Vmware | Vcenter Server | Versions 6.5, 6.7, 7.0 |