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CVE-2021-20872

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-20872 is a protection mechanism failure vulnerability affecting numerous KONICA MINOLTA bizhub series printers. A physical attacker can exploit this flaw to bypass firmware integrity verification and install malicious firmware. With a CVSS score of 6.8 (Medium), this vulnerability requires physical access (AV:P) but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and no user interaction (UI:N), allowing for high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< gca-y1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:konicaminolta:bizhub_c759_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< gca-y1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:konicaminolta:bizhub_c659_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< gca-y1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:konicaminolta:bizhub_c658_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< gca-y1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:konicaminolta:bizhub_c558_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< gca-y1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:konicaminolta:bizhub_c458_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.8MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
PHYSICAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
22.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0030 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 1,532 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 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 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

jvn.jp / en/vu/JVNVU95192472/index.html
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
jvn.jp / vu/JVNVU95192472/index.html
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
konicaminolta.com / global/newsroom/topics/2021/1224-01-01.html
MitigationVendor Advisory
konicaminolta.jp / business/support/important/211224_01_01.html
MitigationVendor Advisory