CVE-2021-33532 — WEIDMUELLER: WLAN devices affected by OS Command Injection vulnerability

In Weidmueller Industrial WLAN devices in multiple versions an exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the iw_webs functionality. A specially crafted diagnostic script file name can cause user input to be reflected in a subsequent iw_system call, resulting in remote control over the device. An attacker can send commands while authenticated as a low privilege user to trigger this vulnerability.

Published Jun 25, 2021Updated Sep 17, 2024Sources: cvelistV5, CERTVDE

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

weidm ller

2 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)

weidm ller

Products (2)

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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-78

References

1 on the record

cert.vde.com/en-us/advisories/vde-2021-026
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Elsewhere on this site

weidm llerevery CVE for this vendor
CWE-78other 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.