CVE-2021-34591 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2021-34591

Bender Charge Controller: Local privilege Escalation

Vulnerability Description

In Bender/ebee Charge Controllers in multiple versions are prone to Local privilege Escalation. An authenticated attacker could get root access via the suid applications socat, ip udhcpc and ifplugd.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Bender thanks the IT security researchers at OpenSource Security GmbH for their thorough and in-depth work. The issue was coordinated by CERT@VDE.

Affected Vendor

Bender / ebee

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Affected Software

CC612, CC613, ICC15xx, ICC16xx
Vulnerable Versions:
5.11.x, 5.12.x, 5.13.x, 5.20.x

Timeline

Official Publish: April 27th, 2022
Last Modified: September 16th, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)