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CVE-2021-35225 (GCVE-0-2021-35225)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-21 17:39 – Updated: 2024-09-17 00:11
VLAI
Title
Netpath Horizontal Privilege Escalation Vulnerability: NPM 2020.2.5
Summary
Each authenticated Orion Platform user in a MSP (Managed Service Provider) environment can view and browse all NetPath Services from all that MSP's customers. This can lead to any user having a limited insight into other customer's infrastructure and potential data cross-contamination.
CWE
  • Netpath Horizontal Privilege Escalation Vulnerability: NPM 2020.2.5
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
SolarWinds NPM Affected: 2020.2.6 Hotfix 1 and previous versions , < 2020.2.6 Hotfix 2 (custom)
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Date Public
2021-10-21 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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