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CVE-2021-44216

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-44216 describes an Insecure Permissions vulnerability in Northern.tech CFEngine Enterprise versions prior to 3.15.5 and 3.18.x before 3.18.1, allowing unauthorized local users to access Apache and Mission Portal log files. With a CVSS score of 5.5 (Medium), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access, but could lead to high confidentiality impact by exposing sensitive information within the logs. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.15.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:northern.tech:cfengine:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 3.18.0, < 3.18.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:northern.tech:cfengine:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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

cfengine.com / blog/2022/cve-2021-44215-and-cve-2021-44216
ExploitVendor Advisory
northern.tech
Vendor Advisory