Vulnerability · Published Feb 7, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-3122

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 87.9% (higher than 99.8% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit, Nuclei, public proof-of-concept code.

Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)87.9%top 0.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack tooling3Metasploit, Nuclei, Public PoC

Official description

CMCAgent in NCR Command Center Agent 16.3 on Aloha POS/BOH servers permits the submission of a runCommand parameter (within an XML document sent to port 8089) that enables the remote, unauthenticated execution of an arbitrary command as SYSTEM, as exploited in the wild in 2020 and/or 2021. NOTE: the vendor's position is that exploitation occurs only on devices with a certain "misconfiguration."

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://rdf2.alohaenterprise.com/client/CMCInst.zip x_refsource_MISC
https://www.tetradefense.com/incident-response-services/active-exploit-a-remote-code-execution-rce-vulnerability-for-ncr-aloha-point-of-sale/ x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/roughb8722/CVE-2021-3122-Details/blob/main/CVE-2021-3122 x_refsource_MISC