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CVE-2021-22530: Improper account management vulnerability in NetIQ Advance Authentication

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 39/100)

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: 0.22% (FIRST EPSS).
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. 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 doesn't enforce account lockout when brute force attack is performed on API based login. This issue may lead to user account compromise if successful or may impact server performance. This issue impacts all NetIQ Advance Authentication before 6.3.5.1

CriticalCVSS 9.9 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Pre-auth

Published: Aug 28, 2024
Updated: Jun 16, 2026
EPSS: 0.2% · 13th percentile
CWE: CWE-667

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Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 39 / 40 · 9.9 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 9.9
CNA · OpenText: 8.2; 1.7 point gap

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

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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-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
CVE-2021-38122Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Advance Authentication
32Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2021-22509Aug 28, 2024 · Handling of sensitive data in process memory in NetIQ Advance Authentication
26Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2021-22529Aug 28, 2024 · Sensitive Data Exposure leaks potential information in NetIQ Advance Authentication
22Monitor
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

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Research context

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Timeline

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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

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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).