CVE-2021-21983: VMware Cloud Foundation

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 68.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Arbitrary file write vulnerability in vRealize Operations Manager API (CVE-2021-21983) prior to 8.4 may allow an authenticated malicious actor with network access to the vRealize Operations Manager API can write files to arbitrary locations on the underlying photon operating system.

Affected products

• VMware Cloud Foundation: version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.1.1 only; version 3.5 only; version 3.5.1 only; version 3.7 only; …
• VMware vRealize Operations Manager: version 7.0.0 only; version 7.5.0 only; version 8.0.0 only; version 8.0.1 only; version 8.1.0 only; version 8.1.1 only; …
• VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager: version 8.0 only; version 8.0.1 only; version 8.1 only; version 8.2 only

Published 2021-03-31. Last modified 2026-08-12.