Security Advisory

CVE-2021-21974

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-02-24 16:57:33
Last updated 2026-06-02 20:00:52
Assigner vmware
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

OpenSLP as used in ESXi (7.0 before ESXi70U1c-17325551, 6.7 before ESXi670-202102401-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202102101-SG) has a heap-overflow vulnerability. A malicious actor residing within the same network segment as ESXi who has access to port 427 may be able to trigger the heap-overflow issue in OpenSLP service resulting in remote code execution.