Vulnerability · Published Sep 9, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-40222
High 7.2
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 4.7% (higher than 92% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
Rittal CMC PU III Web management Version affected: V3.11.00_2. Version fixed: V3.17.10 is affected by a remote code execution vulnerablity. It is possible to introduce shell code to create a reverse shell in the PU-Hostname field of the TCP/IP Configuration dialog. Web application fails to sanitize user input on Network TCP/IP configuration page. This allows the attacker to inject commands as root on the device which will be executed once the data is received.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/asang17/CVE-2021-RCE x_refsource_MISC