id: CVE-2021-21985 info: name: VMware vSphere Client (HTML5) RCE author: D0rkerDevil severity: critical description: | The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a remote code execution vulnerability due to lack of input validation in the Virtual SAN Health Check plug-in which is enabled by default in vCenter Server. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 may exploit this issue to execute commands with unrestricted privileges on the underlying operating system that hosts vCenter Server. reference: - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21985 - https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0010.html - https://github.com/alt3kx/CVE-2021-21985_PoC tags: cve,cve2021,rce,vsphere classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H cvss-score: 9.80 cve-id: CVE-2021-21985 cwe-id: CWE-20 requests: - raw: - | POST /ui/h5-vsan/rest/proxy/service/com.vmware.vsan.client.services.capability.VsanCapabilityProvider/getClusterCapabilityData HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} Accept: */* Content-Type: application/json {"methodInput":[{"type":"ClusterComputeResource","value": null,"serverGuid": null}]} matchers: - type: word words: - '{"result":{"isDisconnected":' part: body