What is CVE-2021-22050?

CVE-2021-22050 is a high-severity vulnerability in Vmware Cloud Foundation, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-02-16.

How severe is CVE-2021-22050?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Vmware Cloud Foundation

CVE-2021-22050

ESXi contains a slow HTTP POST denial-of-service vulnerability in rhttpproxy. A malicious actor with network access to ESXi may exploit this issue to create a denial-of-service condition by overwhelming rhttpproxy service with multiple requests.

EPSS: 0.023 (81.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Vmware Cloud_foundation
Vmware Esxi — versions 6.5, 6.7, 7.0
N/a Vmware Esxi And Cloud Foundation — versions VMware ESXi(7.0 U3 before ESXi70U3c-19193900, ESXi 6.7 ESXi670-202111101-SG and ESXi 6.5 before ESXi650-202110101-SG) and VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x before 4.4 and 3.x before 3.11)

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

security@vmware.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-22050?: CVE-2021-22050 is a high-severity vulnerability in Vmware Cloud Foundation, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-02-16.
How severe is CVE-2021-22050?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.