CVE-2021-21974
High · 8.8CVSS
8.8
EPSS
45.1%
Published
Feb 24, 2021
CISA due date
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The record
OpenSLP as used in ESXi (7.0 before ESXi70U1c-17325551, 6.7 before ESXi670-202102401-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202102101-SG) has a heap-overflow vulnerability. A malicious actor residing within the same network segment as ESXi who has access to port 427 may be able to trigger the heap-overflow issue in OpenSLP service resulting in remote code execution.
Affected packages
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