The vulnerability of the vSphere Client plugin for managing VMware vCenter Server allows a hacker to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the vSphere Client plugin for managing VMware vCenter Server lies in insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted HTTP request remotely...

VMware VCenter Server file upload

Added: 02/25/2021 Background VMware VCenter Server is server management software for controlling VMware VSphere environments. Problem A vulnerability in VMware VCenter Server allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to upload files to arbitrary locations on the server, leading to command executio...

VMware vCenter Server CVE-2021-21972 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: What You Need to Know

This blog post was co-authored by Bob Rudis and Caitlin Condon. What’s up? On Feb. 23, 2021, VMware published an advisory VMSA-2021-0002 describing three weaknesses affecting VMware ESXi, VMware vCenter Server, and VMware Cloud Foundation. Before digging into the individual vulnerabilities, it is...

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...

CVE-2021-21973

The vSphere Client HTML5 contains an SSRF Server Side Request Forgery vulnerability due to improper validation of URLs in a vCenter Server plugin. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 may exploit this issue by sending a POST request to vCenter Server plugin leading to information...

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...

CVE-2021-21973

The vSphere Client HTML5 contains an SSRF Server Side Request Forgery vulnerability due to improper validation of URLs in a vCenter Server plugin. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 may exploit this issue by sending a POST request to vCenter Server plugin leading to information...

Server side request forgery (ssrf)

The vSphere Client HTML5 contains an SSRF Server Side Request Forgery vulnerability due to improper validation of URLs in a vCenter Server plugin. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 may exploit this issue by sending a POST request to vCenter Server plugin leading to information...

Remote code execution

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 Patches Critical RCE Flaw in vCenter Server

Click to Register VMware has patched three vulnerabilities in its virtual-machine infrastructure for data centers, the most serious of which is a remote code execution RCE flaw in its vCenter Server management platform. The vulnerability could allow attackers to breach the external perimeter of a...

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...

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...

CVE-2021-21972

CVE-2021-21972 is an unauthenticated remote code execution in VMware vCenter Server via the vROPS vropsplugin UI, triggered by uploading a crafted archive to /ui/vropspluginui/rest/services/uploadova. Affected: vCenter Server 6.5/6.7/7.0 (including Cloud Foundation 4.x/3.x). Impact is arbitrary f...

CVE-2021-21973

The vSphere Client HTML5 contains an SSRF Server Side Request Forgery vulnerability due to improper validation of URLs in a vCenter Server plugin. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 may exploit this issue by sending a POST request to vCenter Server plugin leading to information...

CVE-2021-21973

The vSphere Client HTML5 contains an SSRF Server Side Request Forgery vulnerability due to improper validation of URLs in a vCenter Server plugin. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 may exploit this issue by sending a POST request to vCenter Server plugin leading to information...

CVE-2021-21973

CVE-2021-21973 is a VMware vSphere Client (HTML5) SSRF vulnerability in which URL validation for a vCenter Server plugin is improper, allowing an attacker with network access to port 443 to trigger information disclosure via a crafted POST to the vulnerable endpoint. Affected products/versions in...

Exploit for Path Traversal in Vmware Cloud_Foundation

CVE-2021-21972 Proof of Concept Exploit for vCenter CVE-2021-2...

Exploit for Path Traversal in Vmware Cloud_Foundation

CVE-2021-21972-vCenter-6.5-7.0-RCE-POC poc Jus...

VMware Releases Multiple Security Updates

VMware has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities—CVE-2021-21972, CVE-2021-21973, CVE-2021-21974—in ESXi, vCenter Server, and Cloud Foundation. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and...

VMware vCenter Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

VMware vCenterServer provides a scalable, extensible platform for centrally managing VMware vSphere environments with optimized resource allocation and plug-in extensions. The VMware vCenter Server remote code execution vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to send a malicious construct...