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CVE-2021-40120

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 EPSS 1.93% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2021-11-04 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2021-40120
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.5
EPSS
1.93%
Cisco Linux

Original NVD Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of certain Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with administrative privileges to inject arbitrary commands into the underlying operating system and execute them using root-level privileges. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious input to a specific field in the web-based management interface of an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system as a user with root-level privileges.