CVE-2021-42796 is a critical vulnerability affecting AVEVA Edge (formerly InduSoft Web Studio) versions R2020 and prior, allowing unauthenticated arbitrary command execution through the ExecuteCommand() function. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it presents a severe risk as it can be exploited remotely without authentication, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor publicly available exploit code in common frameworks, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2020CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:aveva:edge:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2020CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:aveva:edge:2020:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2020CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:aveva:edge:2020:r2:-:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2020CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:aveva:edge:2020:r2:sp1:*:*:*:*:* |
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.
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.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.