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CVE-2021-1728

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-1728 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 8.8) allows a low-privileged attacker on the network to gain full control over the system, leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code or Metasploit modules are available, the vulnerability received some media coverage and community discussion, though it is not currently listed on the CISA KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2019CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:system_center_operations_manager:2019:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.82%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0182 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 17,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: System Center 2019 Operations Manager
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2021-Feb/CVE-2021-1728Important

System Center Operations Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Feb 9, 2021

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2021-1728
PatchVendor Advisory