What is CVE-2021-44216?

CVE-2021-44216 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Northern.tech Cfengine, classified under Incorrect Default Permissions. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-03-10.

How severe is CVE-2021-44216?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Northern.tech Cfengine

CVE-2021-44216

Northern.tech CFEngine Enterprise before 3.15.5 and 3.18.x before 3.18.1 has Insecure Permissions that may allow unauthorized local users to access the Apache and Mission Portal log files.

Published 2022-03-10 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (27.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 27th percentile — 27.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Northern.tech Cfengine

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-276 — Incorrect Default Permissions

References

northern.tech (Vendor Advisory)
cfengine.com/blog/2022/cve-2021-44215-and-cve-2021-44216/ (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-44216?: CVE-2021-44216 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Northern.tech Cfengine, classified under Incorrect Default Permissions. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-03-10.
How severe is CVE-2021-44216?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.