CVE-2021-21993: VMware Cloud Foundation

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The vCenter Server contains an SSRF (Server Side Request Forgery) vulnerability due to improper validation of URLs in vCenter Server Content Library. An authorised user with access to content library may exploit this issue by sending a POST request to vCenter Server leading to information disclosure.

Affected products

• VMware Cloud Foundation: from 3.0, before 5.0 (fixed in 5.0)
• VMware vCenter Server: version 6.5 only; version 6.7 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2021-09-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.