01 Record
CVE-2021-41269
Unauthenticated remote code injection in cron-utils
CriticalPUBLISHEDCNA: GitHub_M
CNA base score10.0 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
02 Description
Unauthenticated remote code injection in cron-utils
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
- 4.34% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 91.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (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:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Critical. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
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
- 2021-11-15 20:30Z4 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 03:08Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-09-15
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Critical (CVSS 10.0)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 8f083c26cdf20c5e134f84b38b0d269aa22e6c4e509ec382a71a2583807b47b6
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/jmrozanec/cron-utils/issues/461
- github.comhttps://github.com/jmrozanec/cron-utils/security/advisories/GHSA-p9m8-27x8-rg87
- github.comhttps://github.com/jmrozanec/cron-utils/commit/cfd2880f80e62ea74b92fa83474c2aabdb9899da
- github.comhttps://github.com/jmrozanec/cron-utils/commit/d6707503ec2f20947f79e38f861dba93b39df9da