CVE-2021-22018: VMware Cloud Foundation

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The vCenter Server contains an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability in a VMware vSphere Life-cycle Manager plug-in. A malicious actor with network access to port 9087 on vCenter Server may exploit this issue to delete non critical files.

Affected products

• VMware Cloud Foundation: from 4.0, before 4.3.1 (fixed in 4.3.1)
• VMware vCenter Server: version 7.0 only

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