{"id":"CVE-2021-20618","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-20618","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T21:20:15.889Z","title":"Privilege chaining vulnerability in acmailer ver.","description":"Privilege chaining vulnerability in acmailer ver. 4.0.2 and earlier, and acmailer DB ver. 1.1.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and to gain an administrative privilege which may result in obtaining the sensitive information on the server via unspecified vectors.","published":"2021-01-14T09:15:14.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:34:08.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"vultures@jpcert.or.jp","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-269"],"affected":["acmailer/acmailer","acmailer/acmailer db"],"epss":{"score":0.03336,"percentile":0.88556,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.34%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN35906450/index.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"vultures@jpcert.or.jp"},{"url":"https://www.acmailer.jp/info/de.cgi?id=101","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"vultures@jpcert.or.jp"},{"url":"https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN35906450/index.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.acmailer.jp/info/de.cgi?id=101","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20618","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}