CVE-2021-41316
HIGH
8.1
CVSS Score
Published: September 17, 2021 at 02:45 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:08 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorDEVICE42
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Severity
HIGH8.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
v < 17.05.01
Affected range stops below 17.05.01, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (3)
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://blog.device42.com/2021/09/critical-fixes-in-17-05-01/x_refsource_MISCProductVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://docs.device42.com/auto-discovery/nmap-autodiscovery/x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://docs.device42.com/auto-discovery/remote-collector-rc/CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-88
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