CVE-2021-21994

9.8CRITICAL

Key Information:

Vendor
Vmware
Status
Vmware Esxi And Vmware Cloud Foundation
Vendor
CVE Published:
13 July 2021

Summary

SFCB (Small Footprint CIM Broker) as used in ESXi has an authentication bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor with network access to port 5989 on ESXi may exploit this issue to bypass SFCB authentication by sending a specially crafted request.

Affected Version(s)

VMware ESXi and VMware Cloud Foundation VMware ESXi(7.0 before ESXi70U2-17630552, 6.7 before ESXi670-202103101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202107401-SG) and VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x, 3.x before 3.10.2)

References

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0014...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
9.8
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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