Vulnerability · Published Jul 25, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-37444

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-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 1.9% (higher than 80% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)8.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)1.9%top 19.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

NCH IVM Attendant v5.12 and earlier suffers from a directory traversal weakness upon uploading plugins in a ZIP archive. This can lead to code execution if a ZIP element's pathname is set to a Windows startup folder, a file for the inbuilt Out-Going Message function, or a file for the the inbuilt Autodial function.

Affected products (as reported)

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

References

https://www.nch.com.au/ivm/index.html x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/0xfml/poc/blob/main/NCH/IVM_5.12_RCE.md x_refsource_MISC