high7.8
CVE-2021-21991
The vCenter Server contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability due to the way it handles session tokens.
Impact
The vCenter Server contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability due to the way it handles session tokens. A malicious actor with non-administrative user access on vCenter Server host may exploit this issue to escalate privileges to Administrator on the vSphere Client (HTML5) or vCenter Server vSphere Web Client (FLEX/Flash).
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Vmware | Cloud Foundation | from 3.0 before 3.10.2.2 from 4.0 before 4.3 |
| Vmware | Vcenter Server | Versions 6.5, 6.7, 7.0 |