Vulnerability · Published Sep 17, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-41316
High 8.1
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 1.4% (higher than 73% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)8.1High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.4%top 26.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
The Device42 Main Appliance before 17.05.01 does not sanitize user input in its Nmap Discovery utility. An attacker (with permissions to add or edit jobs run by this utility) can inject an extra argument to overwrite arbitrary files as the root user on the Remote Collector.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://docs.device42.com/auto-discovery/remote-collector-rc/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://blog.device42.com/2021/09/critical-fixes-in-17-05-01/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://docs.device42.com/auto-discovery/nmap-autodiscovery/ x_refsource_MISC