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CVE-2021-21982

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-04-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance 1.0.0 and 1.01 has an authentication bypass vulnerability that may allow a malicious actor with network access to the administrative interface of the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance to obtain a valid authentication token. Successful exploitation of this issue would result in the attacker being able to view and alter administrative configuration settings.

Affected products

• VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance: through 1.0.1
• VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance: VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance 1.0.0 and 1.01

References

• https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0005.html
• https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0005.html

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