CVE-2021-21549
Published: 21 May 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-21549 is a high-severity CSRF (CWE-352) vulnerability in Dell Xtremio Management Server. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 29.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-8821
Vulnerability details
Dell EMC XtremIO Versions prior to 6.3.3-8, contain a Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability in XMS. A non-privileged attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to a privileged victim application user being tricked into sending state-changing requests to the vulnerable application,…
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causing unintended server operations.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Awareness training educates users on avoiding untrusted links and actions that can be exploited via CSRF.
Requiring user re-entry of credentials for sensitive actions prevents automated forgery of requests without active user participation.
Security testing regimens explicitly include checks for missing or ineffective anti-CSRF protections in web applications.
Detects anomalous request patterns consistent with cross-site request forgery.