VMware has 66 CVEs on record between 2018 and 2026. Disclosures have slowed: 21 in the last 90 days after 35 in the 90 before. The busiest recent month was June 2026 with 35. The median CVSS is 7.3 (high), with 6 rated critical. 11% have been exploited in the wild, in line with the corpus average. The median gap from publication to a KEV listing is 207 days (6 cases). The dominant weakness classes are CWE-22 (6) and CWE-770 (6). Most affected products: spring_framework (22), spring_security (6), cloud_foundation (5).
CVEs per month
Last 12 months, by publish date
- Exploited share
- 11% vs 1% corpus
- Median CVSS
- 7.3
- Publish → KEV
- 207 d median(6)
- Last 90 days
- 21 prev 35
Products
- spring_framework 22
- spring_security 6
- cloud_foundation 5
- spring_ai 5
- spring_data_rest 5
- spring_integration 4
Worst active — by depth score
CVE-2021-21985Critical· 9.8The 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 Server100CVE-2021-21972Critical· 9.8The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a remote code execution vulnerability in a vCenter Server plugin100CVE-2020-3992Critical· 9.8OpenSLP as used in VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.1-0.0.16850804, 6.7 before ESXi670-202010401-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202010401-SG) has a use-after-free issue100CVE-2021-21975High· 7.5Server 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…87CVE-2017-8046Critical· 9.8Malicious PATCH requests submitted to servers using Spring Data REST versions prior to 2.6.9 (Ingalls SR9), versions prior to 3.0.1 (Kay SR1) and Spring Boot versions prior to 1.5.9, 2.0 M6 can use specially crafted JSON data to run arbi…87
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66 CVEsRSS
CVE-2021-21975High· 7.5CISA KEVPoCServer 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…
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…
CVE-2021-21972Critical· 9.8CISA KEV0dayPoCThe vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a remote code execution vulnerability in a vCenter Server plugin
The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a remote code execution vulnerability in a vCenter Server plugin. A malicious actor with network access to port 443 may exploit this issue to execute commands with unrestricted privileges on the underl…
CVE-2020-3992Critical· 9.8CISA KEV0dayPoCOpenSLP as used in VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.1-0.0.16850804, 6.7 before ESXi670-202010401-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202010401-SG) has a use-after-free issue
OpenSLP as used in VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.1-0.0.16850804, 6.7 before ESXi670-202010401-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202010401-SG) has a use-after-free issue. A malicious actor residing in the management network who has access to port…
CVE-2018-15756High· 7.5Spring Framework, version 5.1, versions 5.0.x prior to 5.0.10, versions 4.3.x prior to 4.3.20, and older unsupported versions on the 4.2.x branch provide support for range requests when serving static resources through the ResourceHttpRe…
Spring Framework, version 5.1, versions 5.0.x prior to 5.0.10, versions 4.3.x prior to 4.3.20, and older unsupported versions on the 4.2.x branch provide support for range requests when serving static resources through the ResourceHttpRe…
CVE-2018-11039Medium· 5.9Spring Framework (versions 5.0.x prior to 5.0.7, versions 4.3.x prior to 4.3.18, and older unsupported versions) allow web applications to change the HTTP request method to any HTTP method (including TRACE) using the HiddenHttpMethodFilt…
Spring Framework (versions 5.0.x prior to 5.0.7, versions 4.3.x prior to 4.3.18, and older unsupported versions) allow web applications to change the HTTP request method to any HTTP method (including TRACE) using the HiddenHttpMethodFilt…
CVE-2017-8046Critical· 9.8⚠ ExploitedPoCMalicious PATCH requests submitted to servers using Spring Data REST versions prior to 2.6.9 (Ingalls SR9), versions prior to 3.0.1 (Kay SR1) and Spring Boot versions prior to 1.5.9, 2.0 M6 can use specially crafted JSON data to run arbi…
Malicious PATCH requests submitted to servers using Spring Data REST versions prior to 2.6.9 (Ingalls SR9), versions prior to 3.0.1 (Kay SR1) and Spring Boot versions prior to 1.5.9, 2.0 M6 can use specially crafted JSON data to run arbi…