Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-21983

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 31 March 2021

Published
31 March 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.8318 99.3th percentile
Risk Priority 63 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-21983 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Vmware Cloud Foundation. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 0.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Arbitrary file write vulnerability in vRealize Operations Manager API (CVE-2021-21983) prior to 8.4 may allow an authenticated malicious actor with network access to the vRealize Operations Manager API can write files to arbitrary locations on the underlying photon operating system.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfo

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

vmware
cloud foundation
3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.1.1, 3.10, 3.5
vmware
vrealize operations manager
7.0.0, 7.5.0, 8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.1.0
vmware
vrealize suite lifecycle manager
8.0, 8.0.1, 8.1, 8.2

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References