Guardian
CVE-2021-26725
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V5 - File Handling Path traversal prevention
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| Impact | CVSS score of 8.6 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, high privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the high-severity affected system. |
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Path Traversal vulnerability when changing timezone using web GUI of Nozomi Networks Guardian, CMC allows an authenticated administrator to read-protected system files. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.6), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
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No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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This vulnerability is classified under CWE-24. Path Traversal vulnerability when changing timezone using web GUI of Nozomi Networks Guardian, CMC allows an authenticated administrator to read-protected system files. This issue affects: Nozomi Networks Guardian 20.0.7.3 version 20.0.7.3 and prior versions. Nozomi Networks CMC 20.0.7.3 version 20.0.7.3 and prior versions. Affected products include: Nozominetworks Central Management Control, Nozominetworks Guardian. Version information: version 20.0.7.3.
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Severity by source
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Primary rating from Vendor (nozominetworks) · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorVendor: nozominetworks
DescriptionCVE.org
Path Traversal vulnerability when changing timezone using web GUI of Nozomi Networks Guardian, CMC allows an authenticated administrator to read-protected system files. This issue affects: Nozomi Networks Guardian 20.0.7.3 version 20.0.7.3 and prior versions. Nozomi Networks CMC 20.0.7.3 version 20.0.7.3 and prior versions.
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Attack Technique
Path traversal exploits occur when applications use user-controlled input to construct file system paths without proper validation.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
OS command injection in Guardian language-system lets unauthenticated remote attackers run arbitrary shell commands by i
Remote code execution in Guardian language-system allows unauthenticated attackers to run arbitrary OS commands by injec
Unauthenticated SQL injection in Guardian Language System lets remote attackers manipulate the backend database by injec
Error-based SQL injection in Guardian Language-System allows a network-accessible authenticated attacker to extract the
SQL injection in Guardian Language-System's designer.php (line 124) allows attackers to extract, modify, or destroy the
Error-based SQL injection in Guardian language-system's subtitles.php exposes full database contents to low-privileged a
Error-based SQL injection in Guardian Language-System exposes the full database to low-privileged authenticated attacker
Error-based SQL injection in Guardian language-system's text_file.php exposes the full database to extraction via a triv
SQL injection in Guardian language-system's media.php endpoint allows low-privilege authenticated attackers to extract t
Nozomi Networks OS before 19.0.4 allows /#/network?tab=network_node_list.html CSV Injection. Rated high severity (CVSS 7
Nozomi Guardian before 19.0.4 allows attackers to achieve stored XSS (in the web front end) by leveraging the ability to
A SQL Injection vulnerability in Nozomi Networks Guardian and CMC, due to improper input validation in certain fields us
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