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CVE-2021-38617

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-38617 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Eigen NLP 3.10.1, where a standard user can create a super user account due to a lack of access control on the /auth/v1/user/ endpoint. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a network-exploitable flaw with low attack complexity that can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploits in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.10.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eigentech:natural_language_processing:3.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0141 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 17,844 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

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

cds.thalesgroup.com / en/tcs-cert/CVE-2021-38617
eigentech.com
Vendor Advisory
excellium-services.com / cert-xlm-advisory
Third Party Advisory
excellium-services.com / cert-xlm-advisory/CVE-2021-38617
Third Party Advisory