CVE-2021-42257
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 11, 2021
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 11, 2021
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/monitoring-plugins/check_smart.php
- https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/blog/1068/check_smart-6.9.1-security-fix-release-pseudo-device-path
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1183057
- [oss-security] 20211014 CVE-2021-42257: check_smart.pl: unprivileged user can alter hard drive settingsmailing-list
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42257
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