Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-38120

Medium

Published: 28 August 2024

Published
28 August 2024
Modified
13 September 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0011 28.6th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-38120 is a medium-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Microfocus Netiq Advanced Authentication. Its CVSS base score is 5.1 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 28.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability identified in Advance Authentication that allows bash command Injection in administrative controlled functionality of backup due to improper handling in provided command parameters. This issue affects NetIQ Advance Authentication version before 6.3.5.1.

CWE(s)
CWE-77

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

microfocus
netiq advanced authentication
6.3 · ≤ 6.3

Mitigating Controls

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

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