CVE-2021-42848: An information disclosure vulnerability was reported in some Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage devices that could allow an unauthenticated user
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 21/100)
- 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: 0.75% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 55.1% of all records.
- 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.
- According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.
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
An information disclosure vulnerability was reported in some Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage devices that could allow an unauthenticated user to retrieve device and networking details.
- Published
- May 18, 2022
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.7% · 55th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-862
Report tools
Action score
21
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 21 / 40 · 5.3 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.7%
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- 5.3
- CNA · lenovo
- 4.3
- 1.0 point gap
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| lenovo | a1 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:lenovo:a1_firmware |
| lenovo | a1 | cpe:2.3:h:lenovo:a1 |
| lenovo | t1 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:lenovo:t1_firmware |
| lenovo | t1 | cpe:2.3:h:lenovo:t1 |
| lenovo | x1 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:lenovo:x1_firmware |
| lenovo | x1 | cpe:2.3:h:lenovo:x1 |
| lenovo | t2 firmware | cpe:2.3:o:lenovo:t2_firmware |
| lenovo | t2 | cpe:2.3:h:lenovo:t2 |
| lenovo | t2pro firmware | cpe:2.3:o:lenovo:t2pro_firmware |
| lenovo | t2pro | cpe:2.3:h:lenovo:t2pro |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- lenovo a1 firmwarebefore 5.3.6.a1
- lenovo t1 firmwarebefore 5.3.6.t1
- lenovo t2 firmwarebefore 5.3.8.t2
- lenovo t2pro firmwarebefore 5.3.7.t2-pro
- lenovo x1 firmwarebefore 5.3.8.x1
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (lenovo). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage A1
- unspecified and later · before 5.3.6.a1affected
Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage T1
- unspecified and later · before 5.3.6.t1affected
Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage T2
- unspecified and later · before 5.3.8.t2affected
Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage T2Pro
- unspecified and later · before 5.3.7.t2-proaffected
Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage X1
- unspecified and later · before 5.3.8.x1affected
Same product
lenovo: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2021-42852A command injection vulnerability was reported in some Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage devices that could allow an authenticated user to execu32Monitor
- CVE-2021-42850A weak default administrator password for the web interface and serial port was reported in some Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage devices that 31Monitor
- CVE-2021-42849A weak default password for the serial port was reported in some Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage devices that could allow unauthorized device 27Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- Later →CVE-2021-42851May 18, 2022 · A vulnerability was reported in some Lenovo Personal Cloud Storage devices that could allow an unauthenticated user to create a standard use21Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
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
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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
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
- Kais and KT360 Vulcan Team for reporting these issues.
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).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- 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.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- low · data can be read
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- none
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- Low
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-862 · Missing AuthorizationCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
nvd-primary
Attack context
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Change log
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.