CVE-2021-21991

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Sep 22, 2021
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Jan 4, 2021

Description

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 Client (HTML5) or vCenter Server vSphere Web Client (FLEX/Flash).

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
VMware vCenter Server, VMware Cloud Foundationn/a	VMware vCenter Server(7.x before 7.0 U2c, 6.7 before 6.7 U3o and 6.5 before 6.5 U3q) and VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x before 4.3 and 3.x before 3.10.2.2)Affected

References

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0020.html

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