Is CVE-2021-21986 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2021-21986 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2021-21986?

CVE-2021-21986 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2021-21986?

CVE-2021-21986 has an EPSS score of 12.92% (96th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2021-21986

CRITICALEPSS 96th pctl

9.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a vulnerability in a vSphere authentication mechanism for the Virtual SAN Health Check, Site Recovery, vSphere Lifecycle Manager, and VMware Cloud Director Availability plug-ins. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 on vCenter Server may perform actions allowed by the impacted plug-ins without authentication.

CWE-306

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

12.92%probability of exploitation in 30 days

96thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 96% of all known CVEs.

References

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.