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Unscored CVE-2021-21992 EUVD-2021-9163GHSA-mhm3-qvq8-3fc6

The vCenter Server contains a denial-of-service vulnerability due to improper XML entity parsing. A malicious actor with non-administrative…

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

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.

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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