Security Advisory

CVE-2021-21994

9.8
CRITICAL

Vulnerability Description

SFCB (Small Footprint CIM Broker) as used in ESXi has an authentication bypass vulnerability. A malicious actor with network access to port 5989 on ESXi may exploit this issue to bypass SFCB authentication by sending a specially crafted request.
Published Date July 13, 2021
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory