CVE-2021-1297
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2021-02-04
- Fixed in1.0.01.02
- WeaknessCWE-22 · CWE-36
Am I affected?
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Description
Multiple vulnerabilities in the web-based management interface of Cisco Small Business RV160, RV160W, RV260, RV260P, and RV260W VPN Routers could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct directory traversal attacks and overwrite certain files that should be restricted on an affected system. These vulnerabilities are due to insufficient input validation. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by using the web-based management interface to upload a file to location on an affected device that they should not have access to. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to overwrite files on the file system of the affected device.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2021-02-0417:15CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 18:48 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2021-1297?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2021-1297?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | < 1.0.01.02 | 1.0.01.02 | NVD |
| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | < 1.0.01.02 | 1.0.01.02 | NVD |
| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | < 1.0.01.02 | 1.0.01.02 | NVD |
2 more products in the sources.
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Fix
- Update Cisco rv160 vpn router firmware to 1.0.01.02
Advisories and patches
- tools.cisco.comVendor Advisory
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Published
- 2021-02-04
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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