Description
The Manage Backgrounds functionality within NagVis versions prior to 1.9.29 is vulnerable to an authenticated path traversal vulnerability. Exploitation of this results in a malicious actor having the ability to arbitrarily delete files on the local system.
Published: 2021-10-14
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-4149-1 nagvis security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-19893 The Manage Backgrounds functionality within NagVis versions prior to 1.9.29 is vulnerable to an authenticated path traversal vulnerability. Exploitation of this results in a malicious actor having the ability to arbitrarily delete files on the local system.
History

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References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: SNPS

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-03T19:25:49.435Z

Reserved: 2021-05-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-33178

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-10-14T15:15:09.040

Modified: 2025-11-03T20:15:47.607

Link: CVE-2021-33178

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses