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CVE-2021-42257
HIGH · CVSS 7.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-10-11T20:15:07.373 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:09:31.390

Summary

check_smart before 6.9.1 allows unintended drive access by an unprivileged user because it only checks for a substring match of a device path (the /dev/bus substring and a number), aka an unanchored regular expression.

Affected products

check_smart_project — check_smart

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References

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