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CVE-2021-21989

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-21989 is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Cortado ThinPrint component (TTC Parser) affecting VMware Workstation (prior to 16.1.2) and Horizon Client for Windows (prior to 5.5.2). This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), indicating that a local attacker with access to a virtual machine or remote desktop could exploit it to achieve information disclosure from the TPView process. While the attack complexity is low, successful exploitation requires local access and does not involve user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 16.0.0, < 16.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.0.0, < 5.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.0
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
37.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0045 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

vmwarepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0009.html
PatchVendor Advisory
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-21-610
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry