{"id":"CVE-2021-33178","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-33178","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:20:19.357Z","title":"The Manage Backgrounds functionality within NagVis versions prior to 1.9.29 is vulnerable to an authenticated path traversal vulnerability.","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":"2021-10-14T15:15:09.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:54:19.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"disclosure@synopsys.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-22"],"affected":["nagvis/nagvis"],"epss":{"score":0.01943,"percentile":0.80002,"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":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.94%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://nagvis.org/downloads/changelog/1.9.29","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"disclosure@synopsys.com"},{"url":"https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/cyrc-advisory-nagios-xi","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"disclosure@synopsys.com"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00000.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://nagvis.org/downloads/changelog/1.9.29","tags":["Release Notes","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/cyrc-advisory-nagios-xi","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33178","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."}