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CVE-2021-21994

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CVE-2021-21994

Published: Jul 13, 2021

Modified: Aug 3, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

SFCB (Small Footprint CIM Broker) as used in ESXi has an authentication bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor with network access to port 5989 on ESXi may exploit this issue to bypass SFCB authentication by sending a specially crafted request.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

VMware ESXi and VMware Cloud Foundation

affected
VMware ESXi(7.0 before ESXi70U2-17630552, 6.7 before ESXi670-202103101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202107401-SG) and VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x, 3.x before 3.10.2)

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