CVE-2021-41316

HIGH

Device42 Main Appliance <17.05.01 - Code Injection

Title source: llm

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 (3)

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

[Product, Vendor Advisory] https://docs.device42.com/auto-discovery/nmap-autodiscovery/

[Vendor Advisory] https://docs.device42.com/auto-discovery/remote-collector-rc/

Scores

CVSS v3 8.1

EPSS 0.0065

EPSS Percentile 70.6%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-88

Status published

Affected Products (1)

device42/device42 < 17.05.01

Timeline

Published Sep 17, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026