CVSS 3.1
8.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-21974
High (8.8) in vmware. EPSS 45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- vmware:cloud_foundation
- vmware:esxi
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162957/VMware-ESXi-OpenSLP-Heap-Overflow.html
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0002.html
- https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-21-250/
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162957/VMware-ESXi-OpenSLP-Heap-Overflow.html
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0002.html