CVE-2021-40222

7.2 HIGH

Rittal CMC PU III Web management Version affected: V3.11.00_2

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

Severity and scoring

CVSS: 7.2 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE: CWE-78

Affected products

Vendor	Product
rittal	cmc_pu_iii_7030.000_firmware

Description

Rittal CMC PU III Web management Version affected: V3.11.00_2. Version fixed: V3.17.10 is affected by a remote code execution vulnerablity. It is possible to introduce shell code to create a reverse shell in the PU-Hostname field of the TCP/IP Configuration dialog. Web application fails to sanitize user input on Network TCP/IP configuration page. This allows the attacker to inject commands as root on the device which will be executed once the data is received.

Source: NVD

References

[NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40222
[Exploit reference]https://github.com/asang17/CVE-2021-RCE
[Exploit reference]https://github.com/asang17/CVE-2021-RCE

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