Description
The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a vulnerability in a vSphere authentication mechanism for the Virtual SAN Health Check, Site Recovery, vSphere Lifecycle Manager, and VMware Cloud Director Availability plug-ins. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 on vCenter Server may perform actions allowed by the impacted plug-ins without authentication.
Published: 2021-05-26
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: 1.5% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-9157 The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a vulnerability in a vSphere authentication mechanism for the Virtual SAN Health Check, Site Recovery, vSphere Lifecycle Manager, and VMware Cloud Director Availability plug-ins. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 on vCenter Server may perform actions allowed by the impacted plug-ins without authentication.
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Vmware Cloud Foundation Vcenter Server
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T18:30:23.588Z

Reserved: 2021-01-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-21986

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Status : Modified

Published: 2021-05-26T15:15:07.973

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:49:22.557

Link: CVE-2021-21986

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