CVE-2021-31581: Akkadianlabs Ova Appliance

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The restricted shell provided by Akkadian Provisioning Manager Engine (PME) can be escaped by abusing the 'Edit MySQL Configuration' command. This command launches a standard vi editor interface which can then be escaped. This issue was resolved in Akkadian OVA appliance version 3.0 (and later), Akkadian Provisioning Manager 5.0.2 (and later), and Akkadian Appliance Manager 3.3.0.314-4a349e0 (and later).

Affected products

• Akkadianlabs Ova Appliance: before 3.0 (fixed in 3.0)
• Akkadianlabs Provisioning Manager: from 3.0.0, before 3.3.0.314-4a349e0 (fixed in 3.3.0.314-4a349e0); from 4.0.0, before 5.0.2 (fixed in 5.0.2)

Published 2021-07-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.