Vulnerability · Published Oct 12, 2021 · Assigned by siemens

CVE-2021-33728

High 7.2

In plain English

A high-severity unsafe deserialization in SINEC NMS from Siemens. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.6% (higher than 75% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.2High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.6%top 24.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability has been identified in SINEC NMS (All versions < V1.0 SP2 Update 1). The affected system allows to upload JSON objects that are deserialized to JAVA objects. Due to insecure deserialization of user-supplied content by the affected software, a privileged attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted serialized Java object. An exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the device with root privileges.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Siemens SINEC NMS All versions < V1.0 SP2 Update 1

Weakness: CWE-502

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