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high 7.5

CVE-2021-25681 in the critical feed json

AdTran Personal Phone Manager 10.8.1 software is vulnerable to an issue that allows for exfiltration of data over DNS.

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-12573

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
10.9%
EPSS 10.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

AdTran Personal Phone Manager 10.8.1 software is vulnerable to an issue that allows for exfiltration of data over DNS. This could allow for exposed AdTran Personal Phone Manager web servers to be used as DNS redirectors to tunnel arbitrary data over DNS. NOTE: The affected appliances NetVanta 7060 and NetVanta 7100 are considered End of Life and as such this issue will not be patched.

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Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-49787)

Exploit prediction

10.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-49787 Adtran Personal Phone Manager 10.8.1 - DNS Exfiltration webapps, 2021-04-21
  • github.com https://github.com/3ndG4me/AdTran-Personal-Phone-Manager-Vulns/blob/main/CVE-2021-25681.md referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162280/Adtran-Personal-Phone-Manager-10.8.1-DNS-Exfiltration.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

References

Sources

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