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CVE-2021-38616

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-09-07 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

In Eigen NLP 3.10.1, a lack of access control on the /auth/v1/user/{user-guid}/ user edition endpoint could permit any logged-in user to increase their own permissions via a user_permissions array in a PATCH request. A guest user could modify other users' profiles and much more.

Affected products

• Eigentech Natural Language Processing: 3.10.1

References

• https://cds.thalesgroup.com/en/tcs-cert/CVE-2021-38616
• https://eigentech.com/
• https://excellium-services.com/cert-xlm-advisory/
• https://excellium-services.com/cert-xlm-advisory/CVE-2021-38616
• https://eigentech.com/
• https://excellium-services.com/cert-xlm-advisory/
• https://excellium-services.com/cert-xlm-advisory/CVE-2021-38616

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