Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-35521

Medium

Published: 22 July 2021

Published
22 July 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0029 52.4th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-35521 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Idemia Morphowave Compact Mdpi Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 5.9 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 47.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A path traversal in Thrift command handlers in IDEMIA Morpho Wave Compact and VisionPass devices before 2.6.2 allows remote authenticated attackers to achieve denial of services and information disclosure via TCP/IP packets.

CWE(s)
CWE-22

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

idemia
morphowave compact mdpi firmware
≤ 2.6.2
idemia
morphowave compact mdpi-m firmware
≤ 2.6.2
idemia
visionpass mdpi firmware
≤ 2.6.2
idemia
visionpass mdpi-m firmware
≤ 2.6.2
idemia
visionpass md firmware
all versions
idemia
morphowave compact md firmware
all versions

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