CVE-2021-33205: Westerndigital Edgerover

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Western Digital EdgeRover before 0.25 has an escalation of privileges vulnerability where a low privileged user could load malicious content into directories with higher privileges, because of how Node.js is used. An attacker can gain admin privileges and carry out malicious activities such as creating a fake library and stealing user credentials.

Affected products

• Westerndigital Edgerover: before 0.25 (fixed in 0.25)

Published 2021-06-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.