VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-42257

CVSS score7.1 HIGH
EPSS probability0.39%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-10-11
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

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 regular expression.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-20

Primary references