CVE-2021-21991
Published: 22 September 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-21991 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Vmware Vcenter Server. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 41.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-9162
Vulnerability details
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…
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Client (HTML5) or vCenter Server vSphere Web Client (FLEX/Flash).
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.