Vulnerability · Published Oct 11, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-42257
High 7.1
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 0.4% (higher than 33% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.1High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 66.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
check_smart before 6.9.1 allows unintended drive access by an unprivileged user because it only checks for a substring match of a device path (the /dev/bus substring and a number), aka an unanchored regular expression.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/monitoring-plugins/check_smart.php
- https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/blog/1068/check_smart-6.9.1-security-fix-release-pseudo-device-path
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1183057
- [oss-security] 20211014 CVE-2021-42257: check_smart.pl: unprivileged user can alter hard drive settings mailing-list
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42257