CVEs-PoC/2021/CVE-2021-21992.md

### [CVE-2021-21992](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-21992)
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### Description

The vCenter Server contains a denial-of-service vulnerability due to improper XML entity parsing. A malicious actor with non-administrative user access to the vCenter Server vSphere Client (HTML5) or vCenter Server vSphere Web Client (FLEX/Flash) may exploit this issue to create a denial-of-service condition on the vCenter Server host.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0020.html

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.