# CVE-2021-23207: Fresenius Kabi Agilia Connect Infusion System plaintext storage of a password

> An attacker with physical access can extract plaintext passwords from the registry to impersonate users and manipulate system messages.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 21 Jan 2022
- **Updated:** 16 Apr 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4r23-36c8-4wg2

## What is CVE-2021-23207?

CVE-2021-23207 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fresenius Kabi Agilia Partner, published on 21 Jan 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

An attacker with physical access to the host can extract the secrets from the registry and create valid JWT tokens for the Fresenius Kabi Vigilant MasterMed version 2.0.1.3 application and impersonate arbitrary users. An attacker could manipulate RabbitMQ queues and messages by impersonating users.

Weakness: CWE-522 (Insufficiently Protected Credentials), CWE-256 (Plaintext Storage of a Password)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-23207?

It affects 6 products.


Products: Fresenius-Kabi Agilia Connect, Fresenius-Kabi Agilia Partner Maintenance Software, Fresenius-Kabi Link\+ Agilia Firmware, Fresenius-Kabi Vigilant Centerium, Fresenius-Kabi Vigilant Insight, Fresenius-Kabi Vigilant Mastermed.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-23207?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-23207 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2021-23207 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-23207 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Fresenius Kabi Agilia Partner

- [CVE-2021-41835](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-41835/): Fresenius Kabi Agilia Connect Infusion System use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm (high 7.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-23207 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-23207 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fresenius Kabi Agilia Partner, published on 21 Jan 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-23207 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Fresenius Kabi Agilia Partner. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-23207/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-23207/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23207
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23207
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-23207

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-23207/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.