CVE-2021-22015: VMware Cloud Foundation

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The vCenter Server contains multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities due to improper permissions of files and directories. An authenticated local user with non-administrative privilege may exploit these issues to elevate their privileges to root on vCenter Server Appliance.

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.