CVE-2021-41316
CWE-88Published: September 17, 2021· Updated: Jun 17, 2026
Official Description
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.
Technical Analysis
CVE-2021-41316 can be exploited remotely over the network without requiring physical or adjacent access, significantly expanding the attack surface for threat actors.
Exploitation requires low privileges, which limits the exposure to scenarios where an attacker has already gained initial access.
A successful exploit results in full integrity compromise (data manipulation), availability disruption (denial of service), with a CVSS base score of 8.1.
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Recommended Actions
- →Apply vendor patches immediately
- →Monitor CVE-2021-41316 in threat intel feeds
- →Review IDS/IPS signatures for exploitation attempts