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CVE-2021-22529: Sensitive Data Exposure leaks potential information in NetIQ Advance Authentication

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 22/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.15% (FIRST EPSS).
Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: OpenText NetIQ Advance Authentication <.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to OpenText NetIQ Advance Authentication < or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

A vulnerability identified in NetIQ Advance Authentication that leaks sensitive server information. This issue affects NetIQ Advance Authentication version before 6.3.5.1

MediumCVSS 5.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Info leak

Published: Aug 28, 2024
Updated: Jun 16, 2026
EPSS: 0.1% · 4th percentile
CWE: CWE-200

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 22 / 40 · 5.5 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.1%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 5.5
CNA · OpenText: 6.3; 0.8 point gap

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

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
microfocus	netiq advanced authentication	cpe:2.3:a:microfocus:netiq_advanced_authentication

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

microfocus netiq advanced authenticationbefore 6.3
microfocus netiq advanced authentication6.3

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (OpenText). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

OpenText NetIQ Advance Authentication
- 6.3.5.1 and later · before <affected · server

Same product

microfocus: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2021-22530Improper account management vulnerability in NetIQ Advance Authentication
39Monitor
CVE-2023-24468Broken access control in Advanced Authentication versions prior to 6.4.1.1 and 6.3.7.2
39Monitor
CVE-2021-38121Weak communication protocol identified in Advance Authentication client application
35Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2022-38753Nov 28, 2022 · This update resolves a multi-factor authentication bypass attack
25Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2021-22509Aug 28, 2024 · Handling of sensitive data in process memory in NetIQ Advance Authentication
26Monitor
Later →CVE-2021-38120Aug 28, 2024 · Remote Code Execution using Bash command Injection in backup scheduling functionality in NetIQ Advance Authentication
28Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
OpenText NetIQ Advance Authentication	<	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

TR-24-1358 · Aug 29, 2024(OpenText NetIQ Güvenlik Bildirimi)

All national notices →

Technical details

Attack conditions

Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: none
Availability: none

Attack vector: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: None
Availability impact: None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Root cause

The extension requests broader permissions than its function needs and sends the data it collects out for purposes beyond its stated function.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-200 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

json

1{
2  "permissions": ["tabs", "<all_urls>"],
3  "background": { "service_worker": "analytics.js" }
4}

Fixed

json

1{
2  "permissions": ["activeTab"],
3  "host_permissions": ["https://yildiz.example/*"]
4}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC

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References

www.netiq.com/documentation/advanced-authentication-63/advanced-authentication-releasenotes-6351/data/advanced-authentication-releasenotes-6351.html

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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