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GHSA-46V5-RJR4-JPQG

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-02-17 00:00 – Updated: 2022-02-26 00:01

Details

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.

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CVE-2021-22050 (GCVE-0-2021-22050)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-02-16 16:37 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:30

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Denial of service vulnerability

Assigner

vmware mitre root Scorecard

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	VMware ESXi and VMware Cloud Foundation	Affected: 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)

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GHSA-46V5-RJR4-JPQG

CVE-2021-22050 (GCVE-0-2021-22050)

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