CVE-2021-32087

HIGHPre-NVD 8.88.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 8.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-07-28. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 8.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory
8.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.5%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

An issue was discovered in Quest KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SMA) 11.0.273. It installs with default user credentials. The kbftp account has a password of getbxf, which is publicly known and documented. This allows remote attackers to trivially gain privileged access to the FTP service interface, which contains MySQL backups. Sensitive information is stored in the database, such as privileged credentials for other systems.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
8.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
40
EG Risk 40/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity88% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.5% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
EPSS PROB
0.5%
EPSS %ILE
43rd
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (8.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
8.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.5% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-17). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

July 27, 2026

Last Modified

August 3, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Jul 28, 2026
No fix on record yet.

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2021-32087(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 53× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 97 of 259 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 3 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 162 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-19 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 43rd percentile
  2. 2026-10-18 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 43rd percentile
  3. 2026-10-18 09:01 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-17 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 43rd percentile
  5. 2026-10-16 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 43rd percentile
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  9. 2026-10-12 19:16 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-12 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 43rd percentile
  11. 2026-10-11 23:42 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-11 13:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  13. 2026-10-10 19:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  14. 2026-10-09 20:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  15. 2026-10-08 16:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  16. 2026-10-07 23:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  17. 2026-10-07 04:18 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-07 04:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  19. 2026-10-06 15:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  20. 2026-10-05 17:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  21. 2026-10-04 23:19 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  22. 2026-10-04 07:23 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-04 07:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  24. 2026-10-03 14:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  25. 2026-10-02 18:30 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-02 18:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  2. 2026-10-01 19:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  3. 2026-10-01 15:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  4. 2026-10-01 03:57 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-01 03:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  6. 2026-09-30 15:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  7. 2026-09-29 15:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  8. 2026-09-29 07:58 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-09-29 07:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  10. 2026-09-28 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  11. 2026-09-28 04:03 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-09-28 04:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  13. 2026-09-27 13:41 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  14. 2026-09-26 15:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  15. 2026-09-26 00:21 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  16. 2026-09-25 07:34 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-09-25 07:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  18. 2026-09-24 14:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 42nd percentile
  19. 2026-09-24 09:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  20. 2026-09-23 22:06 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-09-23 22:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  22. 2026-09-23 13:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
  23. 2026-09-23 09:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  24. 2026-09-22 21:52 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-22 21:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  26. 2026-09-22 14:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
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  29. 2026-09-20 01:16 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-09-20 01:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  31. 2026-09-19 15:38 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
  32. 2026-09-19 08:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  33. 2026-09-18 19:36 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-09-18 19:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  35. 2026-09-18 19:23 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
  36. 2026-09-18 02:40 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-09-18 02:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  38. 2026-09-17 19:23 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
  39. 2026-09-17 01:49 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-09-17 01:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  41. 2026-09-16 14:05 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 21st percentile
  42. 2026-09-16 06:19 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-09-16 06:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  44. 2026-09-15 09:17 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-09-15 09:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  46. 2026-09-15 03:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 21st percentile
  47. 2026-09-14 08:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  48. 2026-09-13 21:17 UTCEG score recompute
  49. 2026-09-13 21:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  50. 2026-09-13 16:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 21st percentile
  51. 2026-09-13 07:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  52. 2026-09-12 20:23 UTCEG score recompute
  53. 2026-09-12 20:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  54. 2026-09-12 14:57 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 21st percentile
  55. 2026-09-12 09:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  56. 2026-09-11 20:27 UTCEG score recompute
  57. 2026-09-11 20:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  58. 2026-09-11 14:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 21st percentile
  59. 2026-09-11 09:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 21st percentile
  60. 2026-09-11 08:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  61. 2026-09-10 21:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  62. 2026-09-10 10:22 UTCEG score recompute
  63. 2026-09-10 10:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  64. 2026-09-09 08:27 UTCEG score recompute
  65. 2026-09-09 08:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  66. 2026-09-08 21:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 21st percentile
  67. 2026-09-07 21:07 UTCEG score recompute
  68. 2026-09-07 21:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  69. 2026-09-07 15:58 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 21st percentile
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  71. 2026-09-06 19:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-fm6r-8jgr-6mvw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  72. 2026-09-06 13:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 21st percentile

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2021-32087?
CVE-2021-32087 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 27, 2026. An issue was discovered in Quest KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SMA) 11.0.273. It installs with default user credentials. The kbftp account has a password of getbxf, which is publicly known and documented. This allows remote attackers to trivially gain privileged access to the FTP service…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2021-32087 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2021-32087 was published on July 27, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of August 3, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2021-32087 actively exploited?
CVE-2021-32087 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (43rd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2021-32087?
CVE-2021-32087 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2021-32087?
No fix for CVE-2021-32087 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2021-32087 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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