{ "data_type": "CVE", "data_format": "MITRE", "data_version": "4.0", "CVE_data_meta": { "ID": "CVE-2021-21992", "ASSIGNER": "security@vmware.com", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "vendor_name": "n/a", "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "VMware vCenter Server, VMware Cloud Foundation", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "VMware vCenter Server(7.x before 7.0 U2c, 6.7 before 6.7 U3o and 6.5 before 6.5 U3q) and VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x before 4.3 and 3.x before 3.10.2.2)" } ] } } ] } } ] } }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "XML parsing denial-of-service vulnerability" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "refsource": "MISC", "name": "https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0020.html", "url": "https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0020.html" } ] }, "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "The vCenter Server contains a denial-of-service vulnerability due to improper XML entity parsing. A malicious actor with non-administrative user access to the vCenter Server vSphere Client (HTML5) or vCenter Server vSphere Web Client (FLEX/Flash) may exploit this issue to create a denial-of-service condition on the vCenter Server host." } ] } }