CVE-2021-41316: DEVICE42

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Device42 Main Appliance before 17.05.01 does not sanitize user input in its Nmap Discovery utility. An attacker (with permissions to add or edit jobs run by this utility) can inject an extra argument to overwrite arbitrary files as the root user on the Remote Collector.

Affected products

• DEVICE42 DEVICE42: before 17.05.01 (fixed in 17.05.01)

Published 2021-09-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.