CVE-2021-27859 — Missing authorization vulnerability in FatPipe software

A missing authorization vulnerability in the web management interface of FatPipe WARP, IPVPN, and MPVPN software prior to versions 10.1.2r60p91 and 10.2.2r42 allows an authenticated, remote attacker with read-only privileges to create an account with administrative privileges. Older versions of FatPipe software may also be vulnerable. This does not appear to be a CSRF vulnerability. The FatPipe advisory identifier for this vulnerability is FPSA005.

Published Dec 15, 2021Updated Sep 16, 2024Sources: cvelistV5, certcc

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

fatpipe

3 products listed

CVSS base

8.8

HIGH

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

fatpipe

Products (3)

warpipvpnmpvpn

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

Score	Version	Severity	Expl.	Impact	Source
8.8	CVSS 3.1	HIGH	—	—	cvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

CWE-862

Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.

T1211Exploitation for Defensive Evasion
T1542.002Pre-OS Boot: Component Firmware
T1556Modify Authentication Process

References

3 on the record

www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2021-5681.php
x_refsource_MISC
www.fatpipeinc.com/support/cve-list.php
x_refsource_CONFIRM
www.zeroscience.mk/codes/fatpipe_csrf.txt
x_refsource_MISC

Elsewhere on this site

fatpipeevery CVE for this vendor
CWE-862other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.