Vulnerability · Published Oct 7, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-42071
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 69.9% (higher than 99.4% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Nuclei.
Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)69.9%top 0.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack tooling1Nuclei
Official description
In Visual Tools DVR VX16 4.2.28.0, an unauthenticated attacker can achieve remote command execution via shell metacharacters in the cgi-bin/slogin/login.py User-Agent HTTP header.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50098 x_refsource_MISC
- https://visual-tools.com/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.swascan.com/security-advisory-visual-tools-dvr-cve-2021-42071/ x_refsource_MISC