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CVE-2021-31987

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-31987 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Axis OS, Axis OS 2016, Axis OS 2018, and Axis OS 2020, allowing attackers to bypass network recipient blocks through improper validation of a user-controlled parameter in SMTP test functionality. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability has high impact potential for confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires user interaction and has high attack complexity. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, though it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 10.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:axis:axis_os:*:*:*:*:active:*:*:*
< 6.50.5.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:axis:axis_os_2016:*:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
< 8.40.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:axis:axis_os_2018:*:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
< 9.80.3.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:axis:axis_os_2020:*:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.6
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0086 is in the 43rd percentile among its peer group of 1,572 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.4 Bluesky, 0.2 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.6 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

axis.com / files/tech_notes/CVE-2021-31987.pdf
Vendor Advisory