CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-38617
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-09-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
In Eigen NLP 3.10.1, a lack of access control on the /auth/v1/user/ user creation endpoint allows a standard user to create a super user account with a defined password. This directly leads to privilege escalation.
Affected configurations
• eigentech natural language processing 3.10.1
References
- https://cds.thalesgroup.com/en/tcs-cert/CVE-2021-38617 cds.thalesgroup.com
- https://eigentech.com/ Vendor Advisory
- https://excellium-services.com/cert-xlm-advisory/ Third Party Advisory
- https://excellium-services.com/cert-xlm-advisory/CVE-2021-38617 Third Party Advisory
- https://eigentech.com/ Vendor Advisory
- https://excellium-services.com/cert-xlm-advisory/ Third Party Advisory
- https://excellium-services.com/cert-xlm-advisory/CVE-2021-38617 Third Party Advisory