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CVE-2021-22003: VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager, unintentionally provide a login interface on port 7443.

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 30/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.99% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 62.6% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager, unintentionally provide a login interface on port 7443. A malicious actor with network access to port 7443 may attempt user enumeration or brute force the login endpoint, which may or may not be practical based on lockout policy configuration and password complexity for the target account.

HighCVSS 7.5 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded

Pre-auth

BDU:2021-04034

Published: Aug 31, 2021
Updated: Jun 16, 2026
EPSS: 0.9% · 62th percentile
CWE: CWE-307

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.9%

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Vendor	Product	CPE
vmware	identity manager	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:identity_manager
vmware	workspace one access	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workspace_one_access
vmware	cloud foundation	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation
vmware	vrealize suite lifecycle manager	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vrealize_suite_lifecycle_manager
linux	linux kernel	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

vmware cloud foundation4.0
vmware cloud foundation4.0.1
vmware cloud foundation4.1
vmware cloud foundation4.1.0.1
vmware cloud foundation4.2.1
vmware identity manager3.3.2
vmware identity manager3.3.3
vmware identity manager3.3.4
vmware identity manager3.3.5
vmware vrealize suite lifecycle manager8.0
vmware vrealize suite lifecycle manager8.0.1
vmware vrealize suite lifecycle manager8.1
vmware vrealize suite lifecycle manager8.2
vmware workspace one access20.01
vmware workspace one access20.10
vmware workspace one access20.10.01

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (vmware). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

n/a VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager
- Workspace ONE Access 20.10.01, 20.10 & 20.01. Identity Manager 3.3.5, 3.3.4, 3.3.3 & 3.3.2.affected

Same product

vmware: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2022-22954VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager contain a remote code execution vulnerability due to server-side template injection.KEV
99Now
CVE-2020-4006VMware Workspace One Access, Access Connector, Identity Manager, and Identity Manager Connector address have a command injection vulnerabiliKEV
71This week
CVE-2022-22956VMware Workspace ONE Access has two authentication bypass vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-22955 & CVE-2022-22956) in the OAuth2 ACS framework.
60This week

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2016-5334Dec 29, 2016 · VMware Identity Manager 2.x before 2.7.1 and vRealize Automation 7.x before 7.2.0 allow remote attackers to read /SAAS/WEB-INF and /SAAS/MET
22Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2021-22002Aug 31, 2021 · VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager, allow the /cfg web app and diagnostic endpoints, on port 8443, to be accessed via port 443
39Monitor
Later →CVE-2021-22056Dec 20, 2021 · VMware Workspace ONE Access 21.08, 20.10.0.1, and 20.10 and Identity Manager 3.3.5, 3.3.4, and 3.3.3 contain an SSRF vulnerability.
30Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
No account or password is required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: none
Availability: none

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: None
Availability impact: None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-307 · Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0016.html

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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