Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-21985 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in VMWare Vcenter Server 6.5/6.7/7.0

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
vmware
CWE-918
critical

Summary

The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a remote code execution vulnerability due to lack of input validation in the Virtual SAN Health Check plug-in which is enabled by default in vCenter Server. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 may exploit this issue to execute commands with unrestricted privileges on the underlying operating system that hosts vCenter Server.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)