01 Record
CVE-2021-35246
Unprotected Transport of Credentials (HSTS) Vulnerability
MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: SolarWinds
CNA base score5.3 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
02 Description
Unprotected Transport of Credentials (HSTS) Vulnerability
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Assessed, none found. CISA's assessment recorded neither public exploit code nor evidence of exploitation when it was made.
- SSVC decision
- ExploitationnoneCISA recorded no public exploit code and no evidence of exploitation.
- AutomatableyesAn attacker can reliably automate reconnaissance through exploitation, so this scales.
- Technical ImpactpartialSuccessful exploitation gives limited control of the vulnerable component.
- EPSS probability
- 0.35% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 28.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.3 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2022-11-23 16:48Z3 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2025-04-25 18:18Z1 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-06-22
- Assigning CNA
- SolarWinds
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 5.3)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-319Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive InformationBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- e1a066fa386e89e08faa1d0ed6cccfe7ed1787b02e66e0f6daa25eefeac8d76c
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.solarwinds.comhttps://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/CVE-2021-35246
- documentation.solarwinds.comhttps://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/ets/content/release_notes/ets_2022-4_release_notes.htm
- cve.mitre.orghttps://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-35246
07 Remediation
SolarWinds recommends to upgrade to the latest available version of Engineer's Toolset.