CVE-2021-22025: VMware Cloud Foundation

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The vRealize Operations Manager API (8.x prior to 8.5) contains a broken access control vulnerability leading to unauthenticated API access. An unauthenticated malicious actor with network access to the vRealize Operations Manager API can add new nodes to existing vROps cluster.

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.