CVE-2021-21992
Published: 22 September 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-21992 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Vmware Vcenter Server. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 23.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-9163
Vulnerability details
The vCenter Server contains a denial-of-service vulnerability due to improper XML entity parsing. A malicious actor with non-administrative user access to the vCenter Server vSphere Client (HTML5) or vCenter Server vSphere Web Client (FLEX/Flash) may exploit this issue to create…
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a denial-of-service condition on the vCenter Server host.
- 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.