CVE-2021-21975 on CISA KEV

Server Side Request Forgery in vRealize Operations Manager API (CVE-2021-21975) prior to 8.4 may allow a malicious actor with network access to the vRealize Operations Manager API can perform a Server Side Request Forgery attack to steal administrative credentials.

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

Server Side Request Forgery in vRealize Operations Manager API (CVE-2021-21975) prior to 8.4 may allow a malicious actor with network access to the vRealize Operations Manager API can perform a Server Side Request Forgery attack to steal administrative credentials.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

• www.vmware.com — https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0004.html
• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162349/VMware-vRealize-Operations-Manager-S…

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / VMware vRealize Operations	VMware vRealize Operations prior to 8.4

06Detection

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