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CVE-2021-29792
IBM Event Streams 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 could allow a user the CA private key to create their own certificates and deploy them in the…
Medium4.7EPSS 0.47%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- ibm
Description
IBM Event Streams 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 could allow a user the CA private key to create their own certificates and deploy them in the cluster and gain privileges of another user. IBM X-Force ID: 203450.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 3 months later
· 3 months 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibmCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium4.7 | CVSS:3.0/A:L/UI:N/S:U/AC:L/C:L/AV:N/PR:H/I:L/RC:C/RL:O/E:U |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.47% · top 59% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.7.
Weakness
- Gain Privileges
- CWE-269 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-269 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected 10.0
- affected 10.1
- affected 10.2
- affected 10.3
References (2)
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6469451 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ibm-eventstreams-cve202129792-priv-escalation (203450) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2021-29792)Record last updated .