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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-9163 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T18:30:23.542Z

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

Link: CVE-2021-21992

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-09-22T19:15:09.733

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:49:23.987

Link: CVE-2021-21992

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