Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 22, 2021· Updated Aug 3, 2024
CVE-2021-21991
CVE-2021-21991
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).
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Affected products
2- VMware/vCenter Serverdescription
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References
1- www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0020.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
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