CVE-2021-38617
High
Published: 07 September 2021
Published
07 September 2021
Modified
30 May 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
0.0088
75.8th percentile
Risk Priority
18
60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS
Summary
CVE-2021-38617 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Eigentech Natural Language Processing. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 24.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-25057
Vulnerability details
In Eigen NLP 3.10.1, a lack of access control on the /auth/v1/user/ user creation endpoint allows a standard user to create a super user account with a defined password. This directly leads to privilege escalation.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
eigentech
natural language processing
3.10.1
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.