CVE-2021-1361

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This critical-severity CVE scores 9.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 1.6% (76th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2021-6828 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationNo fix on record since 2021: check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 1.6%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2021 — use a compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and check the vendor's advisory.

A vulnerability in the implementation of an internal file management service for Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in standalone NX-OS mode that are running Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to create, delete, or overwrite arbitrary files with root privileges on the device. This vulnerability exists because TCP port 9075 is incorrectly configured to listen and respond to external connection requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted TCP packets to an IP address that is configured on a local interface on TCP port 9075. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to create, delete, or overwrite arbitrary files, including sensitive files that are related to the device configuration. For example, the attacker could add a user account without the device administrator knowing.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
60
EG Risk 60/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation1.6% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2021. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
1.6%
EPSS %ILE
76th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
1.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2021. Check the vendor's advisory for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

February 24, 2021

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Oct 4, 2026
No fix on record since 2021.
Web page

Cisco NX-OS Software Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Actions Vulnerability

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-3000-9000-fileaction-QtLzDRy2

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 20× in last 7d / 73× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 96 of 237 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 4 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 141 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 00:24 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-02 00:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  3. 2026-11-01 02:17 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-11-01 02:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  5. 2026-10-31 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  6. 2026-10-31 04:10 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-31 04:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  8. 2026-10-30 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  9. 2026-10-30 05:59 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-30 05:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  11. 2026-10-29 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  12. 2026-10-29 07:53 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-29 07:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  14. 2026-10-28 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  15. 2026-10-28 09:47 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-28 09:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  17. 2026-10-27 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  18. 2026-10-27 10:49 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-27 10:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  20. 2026-10-26 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
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  22. 2026-10-26 12:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  23. 2026-10-25 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
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  25. 2026-10-25 14:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
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  1. 2026-10-24 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  2. 2026-10-24 16:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  3. 2026-10-23 18:18 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-23 18:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  5. 2026-10-23 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  6. 2026-10-22 20:07 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-22 20:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  8. 2026-10-22 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 76th percentile
  9. 2026-10-21 21:58 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-21 21:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  11. 2026-10-21 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 75th percentile
  12. 2026-10-20 22:51 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-20 22:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  14. 2026-10-20 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 75th percentile
  15. 2026-10-20 00:35 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-20 00:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  17. 2026-10-19 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 75th percentile
  18. 2026-10-18 23:32 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-18 23:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  20. 2026-10-18 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 75th percentile
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  23. 2026-10-18 01:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  24. 2026-10-17 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 75th percentile
  25. 2026-10-17 02:53 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-10-17 02:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  27. 2026-10-16 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 75th percentile
  28. 2026-10-16 04:45 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-10-16 04:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  30. 2026-10-15 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 75th percentile
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  32. 2026-10-15 03:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  33. 2026-10-14 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 75th percentile
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  35. 2026-10-13 23:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  36. 2026-10-13 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.6% · 75th percentile
  37. 2026-10-12 19:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9cw6-xmv9-q69p · GitHub severity CRITICAL
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2021-1361?
CVE-2021-1361 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on February 24, 2021. A vulnerability in the implementation of an internal file management service for Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in standalone NX-OS mode that are running Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to create, delete, or overwrite…
When was CVE-2021-1361 made public?
CVE-2021-1361 was made public on February 24, 2021: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Cisco Systems, Inc., gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on February 24, 2021. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2021-1361 actively exploited?
CVE-2021-1361 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (76th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2021-1361?
CVE-2021-1361 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2021-1361?
No fix for CVE-2021-1361 has been recorded since its CVE record was published in 2021. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and check the vendor's advisory for a fix.

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