CVE-2021-3850 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CWE-287, CWE-305) affecting adodb/adodb prior to version 5.20.21, as well as several Debian packages. With a CVSS score of 9.1, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely bypass authentication with low attack complexity, leading to high impact on confidentiality and integrity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV inactive) and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.20.21CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adodb_project:adodb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.