CVE-2021-42109 is a critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting VITEC Exterity IPTV products, allowing an attacker to gain root access. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it presents a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the security community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2021-04-30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vitec:exterity_avediaserver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 2021-04-30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:vitec:exterity_avediastream_encoders_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 2021-04-30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:vitec:avediastream_m9605_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 2021-04-30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:vitec:avediastream_m9400_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 2021-04-30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:vitec:avediastream_m9405_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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.