{"id":6068,"date":"2021-05-26T11:10:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T15:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6068"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:05:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:05:36","slug":"vulnerability-in-vmware-product-found-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/vulnerability-in-vmware-product-found-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerability In VMware Product Found On Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A vulnerability with remote code was found in a widely used VMware product on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flaw is in the vCenter Server, a tool used to organize virtualization in large data centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem was found and fixed the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a VMware advisor, vCenter machines that use standard configurations have a bug in many networks that allows malicious code to be executed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This happens when the machines are accessible on a port that is exposed to the Internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vulnerability has a severity score of 9.8 out of 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2021-21985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CVE-2021-21985 is the second vCenter vulnerability this year with a 9.8 rating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>vCenter versions 6.5, 6.7, and 7.10 are all affected, and users with these machines should focus on this patch.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/05\/vulnerability-in-vmware-product-has-severity-rating-of-9-8-out-of-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in arstechnica.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vulnerability found in a VMware product has a severity score of 9.8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6071,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions\/6071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}