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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2021-42786 json

Remote Code Execution at AgentControllerServlet

published 2022-03-09 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-29742

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

It was discovered that the SteelCentral AppInternals Dynamic Sampling Agent (DSA) has Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities in multiple instances of the API requests. The affected endpoints do not have any input validation of the user's input that allowed a malicious payload to be injected.

Patch / fix

  • riverbed steelcentral_appinternals_dynamic_sampling_agent 11.8.8, 12.13.0

Exploit prediction

2.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Aternity SteelCentral AppInternals Dynamic Sampling Agent

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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