Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-44463

High

Published: 28 January 2022

Published
28 January 2022
Modified
17 April 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0004 13.0th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-44463 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Emerson Deltav. Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 13.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Missing DLLs, if replaced by an insider, could allow an attacker to achieve local privilege escalation on the DeltaV Distributed Control System Controllers and Workstations (All versions) when some DeltaV services are started.

CWE(s)
CWE-427

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

emerson
deltav
13.3.1, 14, 14.3.1, r6

Mitigating Controls

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

References