CVE-2021-35941 (GCVE-0-2021-35941)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-29 20:22 – Updated: 2024-08-04 00:40
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Summary
Western Digital WD My Book Live (2.x and later) and WD My Book Live Duo (all versions) have an administrator API that can perform a system factory restore without authentication, as exploited in the wild in June 2021, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-18472.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
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