What is CVE-2018-21033?

CVE-2018-21033 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hitachi Automation Director, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-02-14.

How severe is CVE-2018-21033?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Improper input validation in Hitachi Automation Director

CVE-2018-21033

A vulnerability in Hitachi Command Suite prior to 8.6.2-00, Hitachi Automation Director prior to 8.6.2-00 and Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor prior to 4.2.0-00 allow authenticated remote users to load an arbitrary Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequence. Hitachi Command Suite includes Hitachi Device Manager, Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager, Hitachi Replication Manager, Hitachi Tuning Manager, Hitachi Global Link Manager and Hitachi Compute Systems Manager.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

Published 2020-02-14 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.008 (57.2th percentile), scored 2026-10-20.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 57th percentile — 57.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/comp/soft1/global/security/ (Vendor Advisory)
www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/comp/soft1/global/security/info/vuls/hitachi-sec-2019-12… (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-21033?: CVE-2018-21033 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hitachi Automation Director, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2020-02-14.
How severe is CVE-2018-21033?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.