Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-23556

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 17 March 2022

Published
17 March 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0082 74.9th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-23556 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Guake-Project Guake. Its CVSS base score is 6.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 25.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The package guake before 3.8.5 are vulnerable to Exposed Dangerous Method or Function due to the exposure of execute_command and execute_command_by_uuid methods via the d-bus interface, which makes it possible for a malicious user to run an arbitrary command via…

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the d-bus method. **Note:** Exploitation requires the user to have installed another malicious program that will be able to send dbus signals or run terminal commands.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-Other

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

guake-project
guake
≤ 3.8.5

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References