CVE-2021-1145: Cisco Staros

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in the Secure FTP (SFTP) of Cisco StarOS for Cisco ASR 5000 Series Routers could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to read arbitrary files on an affected device. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker would need to have valid credentials on the affected device. The vulnerability is due to insecure handling of symbolic links. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted SFTP command to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read arbitrary files on the affected device.

Affected products

• Cisco Staros: before 21.19.7 (fixed in 21.19.7)

Published 2021-01-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.