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CVE-2021-1540

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-1540 describes multiple authorization bypass vulnerabilities in Cisco ASR 5000 Series Software (StarOS), impacting products like ASR 5000, ASR 5500, ASR 5700, StarOS, and Virtualized Packet Core. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (High), an authenticated, remote attacker could exploit this to execute a subset of CLI commands, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the EPSS score is low and there's no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, the vulnerability remains a concern for affected systems.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 21.16.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:staros:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 21.17.0, < 21.17.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:staros:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 21.18.0, < 21.18.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:staros:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 21.19.0, < 21.19.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:staros:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 21.19.n, < 21.19.n7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:staros:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.05%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
60.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0105 is in the 49th percentile among its peer group of 5,531 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.3 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-asr5k-autho-bypass-mJDF5S7n
Vendor Advisory