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CVE-2021-21908

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-12-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Specially-crafted command line arguments can lead to arbitrary file deletion. The handle_delete function does not attempt to sanitize or otherwise validate the contents of the [file] parameter (passed to the function as argv[1]), allowing an authenticated attacker to supply directory traversal primitives and delete semi-arbitrary files.

Affected products

• Garrett Ic Module Firmware: 5.0

References

• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1359
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1359

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