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CVE-2021-29005

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-10-11 · updated 2026-07-09
• Weakness: CWE-276

Description

Insecure permission of chmod command on rConfig server 3.9.6 exists. After installing rConfig apache user may execute chmod as root without password which may let an attacker with low privilege to gain root access on server.

Affected products

• rconfig: 3.9.6

References

• https://github.com/mrojz/rconfig-exploit/blob/main/CVE-2021-29005-POC.sh
• https://github.com/mrojz/rconfig-exploit/blob/main/CVE-2021-29005-POC.sh

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