Published: 11/10/2021 Updated: 14/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.6 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.1 | Impact Score: 5.2 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 320

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

check_smart prior to 6.9.1 allows unintended drive access by an unprivileged user because it only checks for a substring match of a device path (the /dev/bus substring and a number), aka an unanchored regular expression.

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oss-sec mailing list archives   By Date By Thread </form>    CVE-2021-42257: check_smartpl: unprivileged user can alter hard drive settings  <!--X-Head-of-Mess ...

CWE-20 https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/monitoring-plugins/check_smart.php https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1183057 https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/blog/1068/check_smart-6.9.1-security-fix-release-pseudo-device-path http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/10/14/2 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42257 https://nvd.nist.gov http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2021/q4/32

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