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CVE-2021-3917

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 EPSS 0.22% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2022-08-23 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

AI analysis pending.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
github.com ↗ github.com ↗

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CVE
CVE-2021-3917
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.22%

Original NVD Description

A flaw was found in the coreos-installer, where it writes the Ignition config to the target system with world-readable access permissions. This flaw allows a local attacker to have read access to potentially sensitive data. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.