CVE-2021-28205
ASUS BMC's firmware: path traversal - Delete SOL video file function
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- twcert
Description
The specific function in ASUS BMC’s firmware Web management page (Delete SOL video file function) does not filter the specific parameter. As obtaining the administrator permission, remote attackers can use the means of path traversal to access system files.
Timeline
ID reserved
By twcert
- 25 days later
· 25 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| twcertCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.
Weakness
Affected products
ASUS · BMC firmware for Z10PR-D16
- affected 1.14.51
ASUS · BMC firmware for ASMB8-iKVM
- affected 1.14.51
ASUS · BMC firmware for Z10PE-D16 WS
- affected 1.14.2
What to do
Solution: update BMC's firmwares to the following versions: Z10PR-D16 1.16.1 ASMB8-iKVM 1.16.1 Z10PE-D16 WS 1.16.1
References (3)
- https://www.asus.com/content/ASUS-Product-Security-Advisory/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.asus.com/tw/support/callus/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.twcert.org.tw/tw/cp-132-4575-2e32d-1.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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