Denial-of-Service Vulnerability in OpenSLP of VMware ESXi
CVE-2021-21995

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Vmware
Vendor
CVE Published:
13 July 2021

Summary

A vulnerability exists in the OpenSLP service used in VMware ESXi that may allow a malicious actor with access to network port 427 to exploit a heap out-of-bounds read. This exploitation could lead to a denial-of-service condition, potentially disrupting the availability of the affected ESXi host.

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

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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