Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-3029

CriticalRCE

Published: 07 January 2021

Published
07 January 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0100 77.4th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-3029 is a critical-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Evolucare Ecs Imaging. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 22.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

EVOLUCARE ECSIMAGING (aka ECS Imaging) through 6.21.5 has an OS Command Injection vulnerability via shell metacharacters and an IFS manipulation. The parameter "file" on the webpage /showfile.php can be exploited to gain root access. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products…

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that are no longer supported by the maintainer

CWE(s)
CWE-78

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

evolucare
ecs imaging
≤ 6.21.5

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.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-78

Platform-independent apps typically execute inside a managed runtime or sandbox that restricts direct OS command execution, reducing the ability to exploit OS command injection.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-78

Validates inputs to block special elements that would alter OS command execution.

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