CVE-2021-42257

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-42257
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-10-11 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-14 00:15:00 UTC
Descriptioncheck_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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Check Smart Project Check Smart All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - CVE-2021-42257: check_smart.pl: unprivileged user can alter hard drive settings MLIST www.openwall.com
ck :: monitoring nagios plugin check_smart SMART Hard Drive Solid State Drive NVMe Check MISC www.claudiokuenzler.com
Bug 1183057 – VUL-0: monitoring-plugins-smart: unprivileged user can modify SMART settings due to insufficient input validation in check_smart.pl MISC bugzilla.suse.com
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42257 nvd.nist.gov
ck :: Monitoring plugin check_smart 6.9.1 released: Security fix in pseudo-device path MISC www.claudiokuenzler.com
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