The vCenter Server contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability due to the way it handles session tokens. A malicious actor with non-administrative user access on vCenter Server host may exploit this issue to escalate privileges to Administrator on the vSphere Client (HTML5) or vCenter Server vSphere Web Client (FLEX/Flash).
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published: 2021-09-22T18:59:08

Updated: 2024-08-03T18:30:23.658Z

Reserved: 2021-01-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-21991

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-09-22T19:15:09.093

Modified: 2022-07-12T17:42:04.277

Link: CVE-2021-21991

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