Missing Authentication for Critical Function
CVE-2021-21986
Summary
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.
- LOW
- NETWORK
- HIGH
- UNCHANGED
- NONE
- NONE
- HIGH
- HIGH
CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function
The software does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published