01 Record
CVE-2021-42257
check_smart before 6.9.1 allows unintended drive access by an unprivileged user because it only checks for a substring match of a device path (the /dev/bus substring and a number), aka an unanchored
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
check_smart before 6.9.1 allows unintended drive access by an unprivileged user because it only checks for a substring match of a device path (the /dev/bus substring and a number), aka an unanchored
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
- 0.38% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 32.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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
- 2021-10-11 00:00Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 03:30Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-10-11
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 6944d9a258b14ff69f77b3ac5cf70b9180cafb2ed749c679e14ae38c45785ed0
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.claudiokuenzler.comhttps://www.claudiokuenzler.com/monitoring-plugins/check_smart.php
- www.claudiokuenzler.comhttps://www.claudiokuenzler.com/blog/1068/check_smart-6.9.1-security-fix-release-pseudo-device-path
- bugzilla.suse.comhttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1183057
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20211014 CVE-2021-42257: check_smart.pl: unprivileged user can alter hard drive settingshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/10/14/2
- nvd.nist.govhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42257