Vulnerability in Hitachi It Operations Director
CVE-2021-29645
Hitachi JP1/IT Desktop Management 2 Agent 9 through 12 calls the SendMessageTimeoutW API with arbitrary arguments via a local pipe, leading to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. An attacker who exploits this issue could execute arbitrary code on the local system.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.0 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.002 (11.4th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 11th percentile — 11.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Hitachi It Operations Director
- Hitachi Job Management Partner 1\/it Desktop 2-Manager
- Hitachi Job Management Partner 1\/it Desktop Management-Manager
- Hitachi Job Management Partner 1\/remote Control Agent
- Hitachi Job Management Partner 1\/software Distribution Client
- Hitachi Job Management Partner 1\/software Distribution Manager
- Hitachi Jp1\/it Desktop Management 2-Manager
- Hitachi Jp1\/it Desktop Management 2-Operations Director
- Hitachi Jp1\/it Desktop Management-Manager
- Hitachi Jp1\/netm\/dm Client
References
- www.hitachi.com/hirt/security/index.html (Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2021-29645?
- CVE-2021-29645 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hitachi It Operations Director. CVSS score: 7.0/10. Published 2021-10-12.
- How severe is CVE-2021-29645?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.0 out of 10.