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CVE-2021-22010

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-22010 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting VMware vCenter Server and Cloud Foundation, specifically within the VPXD service. An unauthenticated attacker with network access to port 443 can exploit this flaw to cause excessive memory consumption, leading to a denial of service. Rated as high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability requires no user interaction and has a low attack complexity. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.0, < 5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vcenter_server:6.7:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vcenter_server:7.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.63%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0163 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (3)

boschpatch availablevia llm_extracted
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mongodbpatch availablevia llm_extracted
View patch
vmwarepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

boschllm-bosch-bf4254ebbbe5dc76CRITICAL

Multiple VMware vCenter vulnerabilities (VMSA-2021-0020)

mongodbllm-mongodb-6c7a402e2d3bd993CRITICAL

Multiple VMware vCenter vulnerabilities (VMSA-2021-0020)

References

vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0020.html
PatchVendor Advisory