CVE-2021-21546 Information disclosure in NetWorker

What is CVE-2021-21546?

CVE-2021-21546 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dell NetWorker, published on 29 Jul 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Dell EMC NetWorker versions 18.x,19.x prior to 19.3.0.4 and 19.4.0.0 contain an Information Disclosure in Log Files vulnerability. A local low-privileged user of the Networker server could potentially exploit this vulnerability to read plain-text credentials from server log files.

Weakness: CWE-532

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-21546?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Dell Emc Networker.

How do I fix CVE-2021-21546?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-21546 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2021-21546 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-21546 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Dell NetWorker

• CVE-2017-8023 EMC Networker Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-11050 Information disclosure in Networker High 8.8
• CVE-2021-21558 Information disclosure in NetWorker High 8.2
• CVE-2023-24567 Information disclosure in Dell NetWorker, NVE High 7.5
• CVE-2023-25544 Information disclosure in Dell NetWorker, NVE High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-w8j7-wmgq-54j8.