hartl3y94/cve-2021-21985_poc

CVE-2021-21985 (Vulnerable Code)

CLASS/METHOD(s) available, a little sample for PoC purposes: com.vmware.vsan.client.services.capability.VsanCapabilityProvider

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getClusterCapabilityData
getHostCapabilityData
getHostsCapabilitiyData
getIsDeduplicationSupported
getIsEncryptionSupported
getIsLocalDataProtectionSupportedOnVc
getIsLocalDataProtectionSupportedOnCluster
getIsRemoteDataProtectionSupported
getIsObjectIdentitiesSupportedOnCluster
getIsHistoricalCapacitySupported
getIsPerfVerboseModeSupported
getIsPerfNetworkDiagnosticModeSupported
getIsPerfDiagnosticsFeedbackSupportedOnVc
getIsAdvancedClusterSettingsSupported
getIsRecreateDiskGroupSupported
getIsPurgeInaccessibleVmSwapObjectsSupported
getIsUpdateVumReleaseCatalogOfflineSupported
getIsVitOnlineResizeSupported
getIsImprovedCapacityMonitoringSupportedOnVc
getIsVmLevelCapacityMonitoringSupported
getIsWhatIfCapacitySupported
getIsHostReservedCapacitySupported
getIsUnmountWithMaintenanceModeSupported
getIsEvacuationStatusSupportedOnCluster
...
...
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CVE-2021-21985 (PoC)

The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a remote code execution vulnerability due to lack of input validation in the Virtual SAN Health Check plug-in which is enabled by default in vCenter Server.

This manual inspec looks the existence of CVE-2021-21985 based on CLASS/METHOD(s) available by default on vCenter e.g. "/ui/h5-vsan/rest/*" sending a POST request and looking in response body (200) JSON data.

Manual inspection:

# curl -s -k -X $'POST' -H $'Host: <target>' -H $'User-Agent: alex666' -H $'Content-Type: application/json' -H $'Connection: close' --data-binary $'{\"methodInput\":[{\"type\":\"ClusterComputeResource\",\"value\": null,\"serverGuid\": null}]}\x0d\x0a' $'https://<target>/ui/h5-vsan/rest/proxy/service/com.vmware.vsan.client.services.capability.VsanCapabilityProvider/getClusterCapabilityData'

References:

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-21985
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0010.html
https://attackerkb.com/topics/X85GKjaVER/cve-2021-21985?referrer=home#rapid7-analysis

CVE-2021-21985 (NSE checker)

This script looks the existence of CVE-2021-21985 based on CLASS/METHOD(s) available by default on vCenter e.g. "/ui/h5-vsan/rest/*" sending a POST request and looking in response body (200) JSON data.

Usage

# nmap -p443 --script CVE-2021-21985.nse <target>

Output

---
-- @usage
-- nmap -p443 --script CVE-2021-21985.nse <target>
-- @output
-- PORT    STATE SERVICE
-- 443/tcp open  https
-- | CVE-2021-21985: 
-- |   VULNERABLE:
-- |   vCenter 6.5-7.0 RCE
-- |     State: VULNERABLE (Exploitable)
-- |     IDs:  CVE:CVE-2021-21985
-- |       The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a remote code execution vulnerability due to lack of input 
-- |       validation in the Virtual SAN Health Check plug-in which is enabled by default in vCenter Server.
-- |     Disclosure date: 2021-05-28
-- |     References:
-- |_      https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-21985

vCenter vSAN Health (console logs)

PATH logs vCenter

# /var/log/vmware/vsan-health/

vSphere Client (console logs)

Monitoring the attacks

# tail -f /var/log/vmware/vsphere-ui/logs/vsphere_client_virgo.log

Author

Alex Hernandez aka (@_alt3kx_)