01 Record
CVE-2021-45679
Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by privilege escalation. This affects R6900P before 1.3.3.140, R7000 before 1.0.11.126, R7000P before 1.3.3.140, and RS400 before 1.5.1.80.
HighPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base score8.4 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:A/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:H/S:C/UI:N
02 Description
Certain NETGEAR devices are affected by privilege escalation. This affects R6900P before 1.3.3.140, R7000 before 1.0.11.126, R7000P before 1.3.3.140, and RS400 before 1.5.1.80.
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
- 0.99% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 61.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.2 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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
- 2021-12-26 00:11Z4 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 04:47Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-12-25
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 8.4)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:A/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:H/S:C/UI:N
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- ce654bd247b659fbbbcb84e5e2ca75f4a5e6b947663eb5646151de6e5cdf65e1
05 Affected products
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