CVE-2021-42257 (GCVE-0-2021-42257)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-11 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 03:30
VLAI
Summary
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 regular expression.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 27/100 over 2387 records in the last 180 days details
References
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