Jun 4, 2021

Two Critical Vulnerabilties at vSphere Client

Two critical vulnerabilities have been highlighted for vSphere Client today. One is with "improper input validation" (cve-2021-21985) and another is "improper auehtnication" (cve-2021-21986).

 

[ CVE Description ]
 [*] CVE_ID : CVE-2021-21986
 [_] Desc   : The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a vulnerability in a vSphere authentication mechanism for the Virtual SAN Health Check, Site Recovery, vSphere Lifecycle Manager, and VMware Cloud Director Availability plug-ins. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 on vCenter Server may perform actions allowed by the impacted plug-ins without authentication.

 [_] C:2021-01-04 / P:2021-05-26 / L:2021-06-03
 [*] Vuln Risk           : 44.4856
 [*] Exploited [trend]   : 0 [holding]
 [_] Exploit/likehood    : False/0.1308% confidence

 [*] Malware sample : 0
 [*] Exploits/POC   : [0]
 [_] Fixes          : [4]
 [_] Threat Actors  : [0]
 [_] CVSS2 / CVSS3  : [ 10.0 / 9.8 ]

 [_] Vuln Products  : [55]

[ CVE Malware Family Info : None ]


[ CVE Description ]
 [*] CVE_ID : CVE-2021-21985
 [_] Desc   : 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.

 [_] C:2021-01-04 / P:2021-05-26 / L:2021-06-03
 [*] Vuln Risk           : 37.0714
 [*] Exploited [trend]   : 0 [holding]  [RCE]
 [_] Exploit/likehood    : False/0.5650% confidence

 [*] Malware sample : 0
 [*] Exploits/POC   : [0]
 [_] Fixes          : [4]
 [_] Threat Actors  : [0]
 [_] CVSS2 / CVSS3  : [ 10.0 / 9.8 ]

 [_] Vuln Products  : [55]

[ CVE Malware Family Info : None ]

[ High_Profile_Vulnerability ]
 [!!!]   CVE-2021-21986 (44.4856) : []
 [!!!]   CVE-2021-21985 (37.0714) : []


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