Vulnerability · Published Jul 19, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-34820

High 7.5

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 4.0% (higher than 91% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High

Exploit odds (30 days)4.0%top 9.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Web Path Directory Traversal in the Novus HTTP Server. The Novus HTTP Server is affected by the Directory Traversal for Arbitrary File Access vulnerability. A remote, unauthenticated attacker using an HTTP GET request may be able to exploit this issue to access sensitive data. The issue was discovered in the NMS (Novus Management System) software through 1.51.2

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

20210709 Novus Managment System Vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-34820, CVE-2021-38421) mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163453/Novus-Management-System-Directory-Traversal-Cross-Site-Scripting.html x_refsource_MISC