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Fencer Vulns
high 7.3

CVE-2021-43555 in the critical feed json

mySCADA myDESIGNER

published 2021-11-19 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-30484

cvss
7.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
38.2%
EPSS 38.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

mySCADA myDESIGNER Versions 8.20.0 and prior fails to properly validate contents of an imported project file, which may make the product vulnerable to a path traversal payload. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to plant files on the file system in arbitrary locations or overwrite existing files, resulting in remote code execution.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-21-313-04 updated cvss 7.3

mySCADA myDESIGNER

  • mySCADA myDESIGNER <= 8.20.0
    affected: mitigation “mySCADA recommends users apply update v8.22.0 or later.” myscada.org

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

38.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • mySCADA myDESIGNER

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-23 Relative Path Traversal
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.