The Device42 Main Appliance before 17.05.01 does not sanitize user input in its Nmap Discovery utility. An attacker (with permissions to add or edit jobs run by this utility) can inject an extra argument to overwrite arbitrary files as the root user on the Remote Collector.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41316
• https://blog.device42.com/2021/09/critical-fixes-in-17-05-01/
• https://docs.device42.com/auto-discovery/nmap-autodiscovery/
• https://docs.device42.com/auto-discovery/remote-collector-rc/