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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2021-21972

The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a remote code execution vulnerability in a vCenter Server plugin. 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. This affects VMware vCenter Server (7.x before 7.0 U1c, 6.7 before 6.7 U3l and 6.5 before 6.5 U3n) and VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x before 4.2 and 3.x before 3.10.1.2).

  • Published: Feb 24, 2021
  • Updated: Nov 4, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2021-21972
  • Severity: Critical
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Critical
  • Score: 9.8
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 10
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWEs:

OWASP TOP 10:

Software From Fixed in
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-f 6.5-f.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-e 6.5-e.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-d 6.5-d.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-c 6.5-c.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-b 6.5-b.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-a 6.5-a.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.7-d 6.7-d.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.7-b 6.7-b.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.7-a 6.7-a.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5 6.5.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.7 6.7.x
vmware / vcenter_server 7.0 7.0.x
vmware / cloud_foundation 3.0 3.10.1.2
vmware / cloud_foundation 4.0 4.2
vmware / vcenter_server 7.0-d 7.0-d.x
vmware / vcenter_server 7.0-c 7.0-c.x
vmware / vcenter_server 7.0-b 7.0-b.x
vmware / vcenter_server 7.0-a 7.0-a.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-update3 6.5-update3.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-update3d 6.5-update3d.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-update3k 6.5-update3k.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-update3f 6.5-update3f.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-update1d 6.5-update1d.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-update1e 6.5-update1e.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-update1g 6.5-update1g.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-update2 6.5-update2.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-update2b 6.5-update2b.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-update2c 6.5-update2c.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-update2d 6.5-update2d.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-update2g 6.5-update2g.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.7-update3f 6.7-update3f.x
vmware / vcenter_server 7.0-update1a 7.0-update1a.x
vmware / vcenter_server 7.0-update1 7.0-update1.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.7-update3j 6.7-update3j.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.7-update3b 6.7-update3b.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.7-update3g 6.7-update3g.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.7-update1 6.7-update1.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.7-update1b 6.7-update1b.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.7-update2 6.7-update2.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.7-update2a 6.7-update2a.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.7-update2c 6.7-update2c.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.7-update3a 6.7-update3a.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.7-update3 6.7-update3.x