CVE-2021-22010: VMware Cloud Foundation

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The vCenter Server contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in VPXD service. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 on vCenter Server may exploit this issue to create a denial of service condition due to excessive memory consumption by VPXD service.

Affected products

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

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