CVE-2021-44207: Acclaim Systems USAHERDS Use of Hard-Coded Credentials Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Description

Acclaim Systems USAHERDS contains a hard-coded credentials vulnerability that could allow an attacker to achieve remote code execution on the system that runs the application. The MachineKey must be obtained via a separate vulnerability or other channel.

Required action (CISA)

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Please contact the product developer for support and vulnerability mitigation.

Notes

https://www.acclaimsystems.com/#contact ; https://www.tnatc.org/#contact ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44207

Weakness behind it

CISA records this vulnerability as an instance of CWE-798. From there the chain continues into CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques, all inside this corpus.

References

• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44207
• KEV catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog