Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-33491

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 22 November 2021

Published
22 November 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0437 89.2th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-33491 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Open-Xchange Ox App Suite. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 10.8% 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

OX App Suite through 7.10.5 allows Directory Traversal via ../ in an OOXML or ODF ZIP archive, because of the mishandling of relative paths in mail addresses in conjunction with auto-configuration DNS records.

CWE(s)
CWE-22

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

open-xchange
ox app suite
≤ 7.10.5

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.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References