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CVE-2021-41316

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-41316 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Device42 Main Appliance versions prior to 17.05.01. It allows an authenticated attacker to inject arbitrary arguments into the Nmap Discovery utility, leading to arbitrary file overwrites as the root user on the Remote Collector. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.1, indicating a high impact on integrity and availability, with low attack complexity and requiring only low privileges. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 17.05.01CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:device42:device42:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0144 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 17,822 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

blog.device42.com / 2021/09/critical-fixes-in-17-05-01
Vendor Advisory
docs.device42.com / auto-discovery/nmap-autodiscovery
ProductVendor Advisory
docs.device42.com / auto-discovery/remote-collector-rc
Vendor Advisory