vCenter Server Denial-of-Service Vulnerability through Improper XML Entity Parsing

CVE-2021-21992 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The vCenter Server contains a denial-of-service vulnerability due to improper XML entity parsing. A malicious actor with non-administrative user access to the vCenter Server vSphere Client (HTML5) or vCenter Server vSphere Web Client (FLEX/Flash) may exploit this issue to create a denial-of-service condition on the vCenter Server host.

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