CVE-2021-21974 (GCVE-0-2021-21974)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-02-24 16:57
Modified
2026-06-02 20:00
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • OpenSLP heap-overflow vulnerability
Summary
OpenSLP as used in ESXi (7.0 before ESXi70U1c-17325551, 6.7 before ESXi670-202102401-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202102101-SG) has a heap-overflow vulnerability. A malicious actor residing within the same network segment as ESXi who has access to port 427 may be able to trigger the heap-overflow issue in OpenSLP service resulting in remote code execution.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a VMware ESXi Version: 7.0 before ESXi70U1c-17325551
Version: 6.7 before ESXi670-202102401-SG
Version: 6.5 before ESXi650-202102101-SG
   n/a VMware Cloud Foundation Version: 4.x before 4.2 and 3.x
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