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CVE-2021-22017

Exploitation: active CVSS 5.3 MEDIUM

CVSS base score: 5.3 (Medium) CISA · v3.1

Score assigned by CISA's Vulnrichment program; the vendor's CVE record did not include one.

VMware vCenter Server Improper Access Control

Vendor: VMware   Product: vCenter Server

Description

Rhttproxy as used in vCenter Server contains a vulnerability due to improper implementation of URI normalization.

Lifecycle Timeline

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 262 points from 2021-12-11, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 85.7% on 2025-03-29.

Published Applicability

CVE List v5 (CNA container) 1 affected · 0 fixed · 0 not affected

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What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Research & News Coverage

No mentions found in monitored research blogs or news feeds.

Detection & Exploitation

Scan
Exploit / Pen Test
none published
Network IDS/IPS
none published
Host / SIEM
none published

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

active
yes
partial
5.3 MEDIUM
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
2025-01-29

KEV Catalog Status

2022-01-10
2022-01-24
Unknown

Listed By

SourceDateRecord
CISA KEV 2022-01-10 source record →
CISA Vulnrichment 2025-01-29 source record →

Weaponization Timeline — Offensive & Testing Tools

No exploit-tool sightings recorded for this CVE.

Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.

External References