CVE-2021-22530 is a critical vulnerability in NetIQ Advanced Authentication versions prior to 6.3.5.1, stemming from a lack of account lockout enforcement for API-based logins. This allows for brute-force attacks, potentially leading to user account compromise and impacting server performance. With a CVSS score of 9.9, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, posing a significant risk of high confidentiality, low integrity, and low availability impact. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 6.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netiq_advanced_authentication:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netiq_advanced_authentication:6.3:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netiq_advanced_authentication:6.3:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netiq_advanced_authentication:6.3:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netiq_advanced_authentication:6.3:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.