CVE-2021-40120
MEDIUMCisco Small Business RV Series Routers - Authenticated OS Command Injection via Web Management Interface
Title source: llmDescription
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of certain Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with administrative privileges to inject arbitrary commands into the underlying operating system and execute them using root-level privileges. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious input to a specific field in the web-based management interface of an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system as a user with root-level privileges.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_cisco
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-sbrv-cmdinjection-Z5cWFdK
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0048
EPSS Percentile
65.3%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-78
CWE-20
Status
published
Products (2)
cisco/application_extension_platform
1.5.1.13
cisco/ios_xr
4.2.3.06
Published
Nov 04, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026