A user with permission to log on to the machine hosting the AXIS Device Manager client could under certain conditions extract a memory dump…

published 2021-08-25 5y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-18861

cvss: 5.3; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 34%
public exploits: 0; none known

A user with permission to log on to the machine hosting the AXIS Device Manager client could under certain conditions extract a memory dump from the built-in Windows Task Manager application. The memory dump may potentially contain credentials of connected Axis devices.

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Exploit prediction

0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	3.5	AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

Axis Communications AB AXIS Device Manager

Classification

Weakness

CWE-316 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in Memory
CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

References

axis.com /files/tech_notes/CVE-2021-31989.pdf
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2021-31989
NVD CVE-2021-31989

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