CVE-2021-38617

8.8 HIGH

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 ...

Published: 2021-09-07 · Last updated: 2026-06-17

Severity and scoring

CVSS: 8.8 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Vendor	Product
eigentech	natural_language_processing

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.

Source: NVD

References

[NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38617
[Other]https://cds.thalesgroup.com/en/tcs-cert/CVE-2021-38617
[Vendor advisory]https://eigentech.com/
[Other]https://excellium-services.com/cert-xlm-advisory/
[Other]https://excellium-services.com/cert-xlm-advisory/CVE-2021-38617
[Vendor advisory]https://eigentech.com/
[Other]https://excellium-services.com/cert-xlm-advisory/
[Other]https://excellium-services.com/cert-xlm-advisory/CVE-2021-38617

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