CVE-2021-21992

medium

Description

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.

References

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

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2021-09-22

Updated: 2022-07-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Impact Score: 6.9

Exploitability Score: 8

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 2.8

Severity: MEDIUM