Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-40493

Critical

Published: 13 October 2021

Published
13 October 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.3877 97.4th percentile
Risk Priority 43 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-40493 is a critical-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Zohocorp Manageengine Opmanager. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 2.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Zoho ManageEngine OpManager before 125437 is vulnerable to SQL Injection in the support diagnostics module. This occurs via the pollingObject parameter of the getDataCollectionFailureReason API.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

zohocorp
manageengine opmanager
12.5 · ≤ 12.5

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.

addresses: CWE-89

Penetration testing uses SQL injection payloads against database interfaces, identifying and supporting fixes for SQL injection weaknesses.

addresses: CWE-89

Validates query inputs to prevent SQL syntax or command manipulation.

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