CVE-2021-22014: VMware Cloud Foundation

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The vCenter Server contains an authenticated code execution vulnerability in VAMI (Virtual Appliance Management Infrastructure). An authenticated VAMI user with network access to port 5480 on vCenter Server may exploit this issue to execute code on the underlying operating system that hosts vCenter Server.

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.