CVE-2021-21982: VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload

Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. 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.

Affected products

• VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload: up to and including 1.0.1

Published 2021-04-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.