Detections
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CVE-2021-21986
critical
Description
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.
References
https://www.tenable.com/cyber-exposure/2021-threat-landscape-retrospective
https://www.tenable.com/blog/cve-2021-21985-critical-vmware-vcenter-server-remote-code-execution
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0010.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162812/VMware-Security-Advisory-2021-0010.html