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CRITICAL

CVE-2021-37909

CVE-2021-37909 — CHANGING Inc. TSSServiSignAdapter Windows Versions - Improper Input Validation

WriteRegistry function in TSSServiSign component does not filter and verify users’ input, remote attackers can rewrite to the registry without permissions thus perform hijack attacks to execute arbitrary code.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, twcert

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

2%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

changing

tssservisignadapter

CVSS base

9.8

CRITICAL

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)

Products (1)

tssservisignadapter

Every base score collected

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

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
9.8CVSS 3.1CRITICALcvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-20

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

  • T1562.003Impair Defenses: Impair Command History Logging
  • T1574.006Hijack Execution Flow: Dynamic Linker Hijacking
  • T1574.007Hijack Execution Flow: Path Interception by PATH Environment Variable

References

1 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

  • changingevery CVE for this vendor
  • CWE-20other 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.