01 Record
CVE-2021-38539
Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by privilege escalation. This affects D8500 before 1.0.3.44, R6400v2 before 1.0.2.66, R6700 before 1.0.2.6, R6700v3 before 1.0.2.66, R6900 before 1.0.2.4, R6900P
MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base score6.3 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:A/A:N/C:L/I:H/PR:L/S:U/UI:N
02 Description
Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by privilege escalation. This affects D8500 before 1.0.3.44, R6400v2 before 1.0.2.66, R6700 before 1.0.2.6, R6700v3 before 1.0.2.66, R6900 before 1.0.2.4, R6900P
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.82% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 56.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- 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
- 2021-08-10 23:58Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 01:44Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-08-10
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 6.3)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:A/A:N/C:L/I:H/PR:L/S:U/UI:N
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- e5e002149d2823512bf2c0d301dde53036e537ecde637990390bbe23afe30a10
05 Affected products
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