{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 3 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-21983 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2021-21983 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2021-21983 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Vmware Cloud Foundation, published on 31 Mar 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2021-21983 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-21983 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Vmware Cloud Foundation, published on 31 Mar 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-21983 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Vmware Cloud Foundation. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-21983/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-21983/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-21983","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-21983/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-21983","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-4vwx-r658-c2mg"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution","privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"VMware vRealize Operations","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"Authenticated attackers can write arbitrary files to the underlying OS via the API, potentially leading to code execution or privilege escalation.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"vmware","cpe":[{"product":"cloud_foundation","vendor":"vmware"},{"product":"vrealize_operations_manager","vendor":"vmware"},{"product":"vrealize_suite_lifecycle_manager","vendor":"vmware"}],"cvss":{"score":6.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"Arbitrary file write vulnerability in vRealize Operations Manager API (CVE-2021-21983) prior to 8.4 may allow an authenticated malicious actor with network access to the vRealize Operations Manager API can write files to arbitrary locations on the underlying photon operating system.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":"2021-03-30","github_poc":1,"max_poc_stars":3,"metasploit":1,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2022-03-16T11:56:25Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/murataydemir/CVE-2021-21983","stars":3,"title":"[CVE-2021-21983] VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) Manager API Arbitrary File Write Leads to Remote Code Execution (RCE)"},{"date":"2021-03-30","kind":"metasploit","ref":"exploit/linux/http/vmware_vrops_mgr_ssrf_rce","stars":null,"title":"VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) Manager SSRF RCE"}],"tier":"exploited"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Path traversal in VMware vRealize Operations","id":"CVE-2021-21983","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"vmware:cloud_foundation","products":["vmware:cloud_foundation"],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2021"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Missing authorization in VMware vRealize Business for Cloud","id":"CVE-2021-21984"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Auth bypass in VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance","id":"CVE-2021-21982"},"products":["VMware vRealize Operations"],"published":"2021-03-31","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"VMware vCenter Server Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2024-38812","kev_date_added":"2024-11-20","published":"2024-09-17"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Broadcom VMware vCenter Server Out-of-bounds Write","id":"CVE-2024-37079","kev_date_added":"2026-01-23","published":"2024-06-18"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager Server-Side Template Injection","id":"CVE-2022-22954","kev_date_added":"2022-04-14","published":"2022-04-11"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"VMware vCenter Server File Upload","id":"CVE-2021-22005","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2021-09-23"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"VMware vCenter Server Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2021-21985","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2021-05-26"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"VMware Server Side Request Forgery in vRealize Operations Manager API","id":"CVE-2021-21975","kev_date_added":"2022-01-18","published":"2021-03-31"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"VMware vCenter Server Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2021-21972","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2021-02-24"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"BSD-3-Clause","name":"Metasploit"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0","name":"PoC-in-GitHub"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"yes","exploitation":"active","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-12","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Authenticated attackers can write arbitrary files to the underlying OS via the API, potentially leading to code execution or privilege escalation.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-21983/"}