CVE-2021-41316

high

Description

The Device42 Main Appliance before 17.05.01 does not sanitize user input in its Nmap Discovery utility. An attacker (with permissions to add or edit jobs run by this utility) can inject an extra argument to overwrite arbitrary files as the root user on the Remote Collector.

References

https://docs.device42.com/auto-discovery/remote-collector-rc/

https://docs.device42.com/auto-discovery/nmap-autodiscovery/

https://blog.device42.com/2021/09/critical-fixes-in-17-05-01/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-09-17

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00975