CVE-2021-21982

9.1 criticalEPSS 1.4%

Critical (9.1) in vmware carbon black cloud workload. EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance 1.0.0 and 1.01 has an authentication bypass vulnerability that may allow a malicious actor with network access to the administrative interface of the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance to obtain a valid authentication token. Successful exploitation of this issue would result in the attacker being able to view and alter administrative configuration settings.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.1 critical

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

EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 71% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-287
Published: 2021-04-01
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

vmware:carbon_black_cloud_workload

References

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0005.html
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0005.html

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