CVE-2021-22022: VMware Cloud Foundation

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The vRealize Operations Manager API (8.x prior to 8.5) contains an arbitrary file read vulnerability. A malicious actor with administrative access to vRealize Operations Manager API can read any arbitrary file on server leading to information disclosure.

Affected products

• VMware Cloud Foundation: from 3.0, up to and including 3.10.2.1; from 4.0, up to and including 4.2.1
• VMware vRealize Operations Manager: from 8.0.0, before 8.5.0 (fixed in 8.5.0); version 7.5.0 only
• VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager: from 8.0, up to and including 8.2

Published 2021-08-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.