CVE-2021-1499

Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform File Upload Vulnerability

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 5.3
EPSS: EPSS 80.43 % · percentile 100 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2021-05-06
Updated: 2024-11-08
Assigner: cisco
NVD status: Modified

Description

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to upload files to an affected device. This vulnerability is due to missing authentication for the upload function. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specific HTTP request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to upload files to the affected device with the permissions of the tomcat8 user.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	cisco
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	NVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-306

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2021-6966
GCVE · GCVE-0-2021-1499

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:o:cisco:hyperflex_hx_data_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 4.0\(2e\)
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:hyperflex_hx_data_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 4.5 < 4.5\(2a\)

Affected products

Product	Versions
Cisco · Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform	affected n/a

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD