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CVE-2021-22023

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-22023 is an insecure object reference vulnerability in the vRealize Operations Manager API (versions 8.x prior to 8.5), also affecting VMware Cloud Foundation and vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.2) allows an authenticated attacker with administrative API access to modify other user information, potentially leading to account takeover. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.0, <= 3.10.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.0, <= 4.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0.0, < 8.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vrealize_operations_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vrealize_operations_manager:7.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0, <= 8.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vrealize_suite_lifecycle_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.2HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
59.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0100 is in the 46th percentile among its peer group of 5,537 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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-2021-0018.html
PatchVendor Advisory