CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-21992

Published: Sep 22, 2021 | Modified: Jul 12, 2022
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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 a denial-of-service condition on the vCenter Server host.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Cloud_foundation Vmware 3.0 (including) 3.10.2.2 (excluding)
Cloud_foundation Vmware 4.0 (including) 4.3 (excluding)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5 (including) 6.5 (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-a (including) 6.5-a (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-b (including) 6.5-b (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-c (including) 6.5-c (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-d (including) 6.5-d (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-e (including) 6.5-e (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-f (including) 6.5-f (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update1 (including) 6.5-update1 (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update1b (including) 6.5-update1b (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update1c (including) 6.5-update1c (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update1d (including) 6.5-update1d (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update1e (including) 6.5-update1e (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update1g (including) 6.5-update1g (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update2 (including) 6.5-update2 (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update2b (including) 6.5-update2b (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update2c (including) 6.5-update2c (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update2d (including) 6.5-update2d (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update2g (including) 6.5-update2g (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update3 (including) 6.5-update3 (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update3d (including) 6.5-update3d (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update3f (including) 6.5-update3f (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update3k (including) 6.5-update3k (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update3n (including) 6.5-update3n (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.5-update3p (including) 6.5-update3p (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.7 (including) 6.7 (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.7-a (including) 6.7-a (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.7-b (including) 6.7-b (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.7-d (including) 6.7-d (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.7-update1 (including) 6.7-update1 (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.7-update1b (including) 6.7-update1b (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.7-update2 (including) 6.7-update2 (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.7-update2a (including) 6.7-update2a (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.7-update2c (including) 6.7-update2c (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.7-update3 (including) 6.7-update3 (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.7-update3a (including) 6.7-update3a (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.7-update3b (including) 6.7-update3b (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.7-update3f (including) 6.7-update3f (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.7-update3g (including) 6.7-update3g (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.7-update3j (including) 6.7-update3j (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.7-update3l (including) 6.7-update3l (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.7-update3m (including) 6.7-update3m (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 6.7-update3n (including) 6.7-update3n (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-a (including) 7.0-a (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-b (including) 7.0-b (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-c (including) 7.0-c (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-d (including) 7.0-d (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update1 (including) 7.0-update1 (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update1a (including) 7.0-update1a (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update1c (including) 7.0-update1c (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update1d (including) 7.0-update1d (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update2 (including) 7.0-update2 (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update2a (including) 7.0-update2a (including)
Vcenter_server Vmware 7.0-update2b (including) 7.0-update2b (including)

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