CVE-2021-22015

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-22015
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-09-23 13:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-03 19:12:00 UTC
DescriptionThe vCenter Server contains multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities due to improper permissions of files and directories. An authenticated local user with non-administrative privilege may exploit these issues to elevate their privileges to root on vCenter Server Appliance.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-552

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Vmware Cloud Foundation All All All All
Application Vmware Vcenter Server 6.5 - All All
Application Vmware Vcenter Server 6.7 - All All
Application Vmware Vcenter Server 7.0 - All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
VMSA-2021-0020 MISC www.vmware.com
VMware vCenter vScalation Privilege Escalation ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 216265 VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 7.0 U2c (VMSA-2021-0020)
  • 216266 VMware vCenter Server 6.7 Update 6.7 U3o (VMSA-2021-0020)
  • 216267 VMware vCenter Server 6.5 Update 6.5 U3q (VMSA-2021-0020)
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