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CVE-2021-1441

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-1441 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Cisco 1100 Series Industrial Integrated Services Routers and Cisco ESR6300 Embedded Series Routers. It allows an authenticated, local attacker with administrative credentials to execute unsigned code at boot time, bypassing secure boot. The vulnerability stems from incorrect validation in diagnostic scripts during hardware initialization. While the CVSS score is 6.7, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.15.1xbsCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:3.15.1xbs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.15.2xbsCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:3.15.2xbs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.9.1cCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.9.1c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.10.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios_xe:16.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.7MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
23.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0031 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 3,720 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-ios-xe-iot-codexec-k46EFF6q
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