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Unscored CVE-2021-21991 EUVD-2021-9162GHSA-h338-w3fh-545j

The vCenter Server contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability due to the way it handles session tokens. A malicious actor with non…

Published Sep 22, 2021 · Updated Aug 3, 2024 · Assigned by vmware

Description

The vCenter Server contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability due to the way it handles session tokens. A malicious actor with non-administrative user access on vCenter Server host may exploit this issue to escalate privileges to Administrator on the vSphere Client (HTML5) or vCenter Server vSphere Web Client (FLEX/Flash).

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— VMware vCenter Server, VMware Cloud Foundation VMware vCenter Server(7.x before 7.0 U2c, 6.7 before 6.7 U3o and 6.5 before 6.5 U3q) and VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x before 4.3 and 3.x before 3.10.2.2) —

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