Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-42701

Medium

Published: 05 November 2021

Published
05 November 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0011 28.9th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-42701 is a medium-severity MAID (CWE-471) vulnerability in Azeotech Daqfactory. Its CVSS base score is 5.0 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 28.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An attacker could prepare a specially crafted project file that, if opened, would attempt to connect to the cloud and trigger a man in the middle (MiTM) attack. This could allow an attacker to obtain credentials and take over the…

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user’s cloud account.

CWE(s)
CWE-471

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

azeotech
daqfactory
18.1 · ≤ 18.1

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.

SC-33 Transmission Preparation Integrity
addresses: CWE-471

Checksums and integrity protection during transformation/packing detect unauthorized modification of data assumed to be immutable before it is transmitted.

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