Tracker / CVE-2021-21999
CVE-2021-21999
High 7.8
VMware Tools for Windows (11.x.y prior to 11.2.6), VMware Remote Console for Windows (12.x prior to 12.0.1) , VMware App Volumes (2.x prior to 2.18.10 and 4 prior to 2103) contain a local privilege escalation vulnerability. An attacker with normal access to a virtual machine may exploit this issue by placing a malicious file renamed as `openssl.cnf' in an unrestricted directory which would allow code to be executed with elevated privileges.
Affected products and versions
| vmware | app_volumes · 2.0 → 2.18.10 |
|---|---|
| vmware | app_volumes · 4 → 2103 |
| vmware | remote_console · 12.0.0 → 12.0.1 |
| vmware | tools · 11.0.0 → 11.2.6 |
Analysis
This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.