PT-2022-2233
CVE-2021-22050
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Published
2022-02-15
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Updated
2022-02-25
Description by
CVSS 2.0
7.8
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
VMware ESXi (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue is related to a slow HTTP POST denial-of-service vulnerability in the rhttpproxy service. A malicious actor with network access to ESXi can exploit this issue to create a denial-of-service condition by overwhelming the rhttpproxy service with multiple requests. This is due to errors in resource management.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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