Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-22022

Medium

Published: 30 August 2021

Published
30 August 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0021 44.0th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-22022 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Vmware Cloud Foundation. Its CVSS base score is 4.9 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 44.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The vRealize Operations Manager API (8.x prior to 8.5) contains an arbitrary file read vulnerability. A malicious actor with administrative access to vRealize Operations Manager API can read any arbitrary file on server leading to information disclosure.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

vmware
cloud foundation
3.0 — 3.10.2.1 · 4.0 — 4.2.1
vmware
vrealize operations manager
7.5.0 · 8.0.0 — 8.5.0
vmware
vrealize suite lifecycle manager
8.0 — 8.2

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References