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ghsa-6qhw-394j-xwvg

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 19:03

Modified

2022-07-13 00:01

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a vulnerability in a vSphere authentication mechanism for the Virtual SAN Health Check, Site Recovery, vSphere Lifecycle Manager, and VMware Cloud Director Availability plug-ins. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 on vCenter Server may perform actions allowed by the impacted plug-ins without authentication.

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CVE-2021-21986 (GCVE-0-2021-21986)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2021-05-26 14:04

Modified

2024-08-03 18:30

Severity ?

CWE

Issue with Authentication mechanism

Summary

The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a vulnerability in a vSphere authentication mechanism for the Virtual SAN Health Check, Site Recovery, vSphere Lifecycle Manager, and VMware Cloud Director Availability plug-ins. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 on vCenter Server may perform actions allowed by the impacted plug-ins without authentication.

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	https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0010.html	x_refsource_MISC
	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162812/VMware-Security-Advisory-2021-0010.html	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	VMware vCenter Server and VMware Cloud Foundation	Version: VMware vCenter Server (7.x before 7.0 U2b, 6.7 before 6.7 U3n, 6.5 before 6.5 U3p) and VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x before 4.2.1, 3.x before 3.10.2.1)

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