CVE-2021-38132
Published: 12 September 2024
Summary
CVE-2021-38132 is a medium-severity SSRF (CWE-918) vulnerability in Microfocus Edirectory. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 30.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-24605
Vulnerability details
Possible External Service Interaction attack in eDirectory has been discovered in OpenText™ eDirectory. This impact all version before 9.2.6.0000.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Penetration testing attempts server-side requests to internal resources, identifying SSRF weaknesses for remediation.
Outbound connections to external resources can be monitored and limited at the boundary, reducing SSRF impact.
Validates server-side URLs and resource references to block SSRF attempts.
Detects server-side request forgery through monitoring of unexpected outbound connections.