Resilient Security Orchestration Automation And Response
CVE-2021-29802
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Least privilege enforcement
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could escalate privileges to gain unauthorized elevated access by sending crafted requests to the affected application. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
IBM Security SOAR performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply principle of least privilege, validate privilege transitions, implement proper role separation.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269), which allows attackers to escalate privileges to gain unauthorized elevated access. IBM Security SOAR performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses. Affected products include: Ibm Resilient Security Orchestration Automation And Response.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
IBM Security SOAR performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses.
Threat Intelligence Overview
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
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Priority Score
Attack Technique
Privilege escalation occurs when an attacker leverages flaws in access control mechanisms to gain permissions beyond what they were originally granted.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
IBM Resilient SOAR V38.0 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by formula inject
IBM Security SOAR uses weaker than expected cryptographic algorithms that could allow an attacker to decrypt highly sens
IBM Resilient SOAR V38.0 uses weaker than expected cryptographic algorithms that could allow an attacker to decrypt high
IBM Resilient OnPrem 38.2 could allow a privileged user to inject malicious commands through Python3 scripting. Rated hi
IBM Resilient OnPrem v41.1 of IBM Security SOAR could allow an authenticated user to perform actions that they should no
IBM Resilient SOAR V38.0 could allow a local privileged attacker to obtain sensitive information due to improper or none
IBM Resilient SOAR V38.0 could allow an attacker on the internal net work to provide the server with a spoofed source IP
GitHub PoC
Exploit-DB