CVE-2021-41316

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    CVE-2021-41316

    Published: 17 Sept 2021Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The Device42 Main Appliance before 17.05.01 does not sanitize user input in its Nmap Discovery utility. An attacker (with permissions to add or edit jobs run by this utility) can inject an extra argument to overwrite arbitrary files as the root user on the Remote Collector.

    References: , https://docs.device42.com/auto-discovery/nmap-autodiscovery/, https://docs.device42.com/auto-discovery/remote-collector-rc/, https://blog.device42.com/2021/09/critical-fixes-in-17-05-01/

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    CVE-2021-41316 | CVE-DB