The Device42 Main Appliance before 17.05.01 does not sanitize user input in its Nmap Discovery utility.

published 2021-09-17 5y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-28345

cvss: 8.1; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.4%; EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

device42 device42 17.05.01

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Exploit prediction

1.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	8.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	8.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command

References

docs.device42.com /auto-discovery/remote-collector-rc/
vendor-advisory
blog.device42.com /2021/09/critical-fixes-in-17-05-01/
vendor-advisory
docs.device42.com /auto-discovery/nmap-autodiscovery/
product, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2021-41316
NVD CVE-2021-41316

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