CVE record
CVE-2021-21972
VMware vCenter Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
VMware vCenter Server vSphere Client contains a remote code execution vulnerability in a vCenter Server plugin which allows an attacker with network access to port 443 to execute commands with unrestricted privileges on the underlying operating system.
CVE evidence
Known exploitation
Listed in CISA KEV
Absence from the fetched catalog does not establish that exploitation has not occurred.
Severity
unknown
No parseable CVSS vector returned
Affected packages
0
Supported package records returned by OSV. Vendor and product names are not used to infer matches.
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
Catalog record
- Vendor / project
- VMware
- Product
- vCenter Server
- Date added
- Nov 3, 2021
- CISA federal remediation due date
- Nov 17, 2021
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware campaign use
- Known
- CWE
- CWE-23
OSV package mapping
Affected open-source packages
OSV did not return a package mapping in the five supported ecosystems. RequestGuard does not infer package names from the CISA vendor or product fields.