Vulnerability · Published Feb 21, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-45008

High 8.8

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 2.0% (higher than 80% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)2.0%top 19.6% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

Plesk CMS 18.0.37 is affected by an insecure permissions vulnerability that allows privilege Escalation from user to admin rights. OTE: the vendor states that this is only a site-specific problem on websites of one or more Plesk users

Affected products (as reported)

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

Weakness: CWE-281 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

https://github.com/AS4mir/CVE-2021-45008/blob/main/README.md x_refsource_MISC