CVE-2021-44207

CRITICALNVD 8.19.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-12-23), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 8.1 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.1 HIGH under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictMitigate nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 18%CVSS: 8.1Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

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

The CVE record's description, written by its CNA (MITRE Corporation), states the affected versions: "Acclaim USAHERDS through 7.4.0.1 uses hard-coded credentials." No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

Acclaim USAHERDS through 7.4.0.1 uses hard-coded credentials.

CVSS v3
8.1
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
76
EG Risk 76/100

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)
Severity81% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.1 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (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 at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
EPSS PROB
18%
EPSS %ILE
97th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

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

The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.1 HIGH.

EG Severity
8.1 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
18% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-23). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Attend at medium mission impactTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days 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, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.

Exploitation active (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)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.

In CISA KEV yes (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

CISA required action“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.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://www.acclaimsystems.com/#contact · https://www.tnatc.org/#contact · https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44207

Published

December 21, 2021

Last Modified

November 10, 2025

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Oct 19, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). No fix on record yet. Sources: cisa.
CISA🔴 Active Exploitation

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2021-44207
Web page

Acclaim Systems Home

https://www.acclaimsystems.com
Web page

Vulnerability-Disclosures/MNDT-2021-0012/MNDT-2021-0012.md at master · mandiant/Vulnerability-Disclosures · GitHub

https://github.com/mandiant/Vulnerability-Disclosures/blob/master/MNDT-2021-0012/MNDT-2021-0012.md

Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 24× in last 7d / 195× 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 100 of 1,174 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. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 1,074 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-23 17:44 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-23 17:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  3. 2026-10-23 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 18% · 97th percentile
  4. 2026-10-22 18:51 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-22 18:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  6. 2026-10-22 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 18% · 97th percentile
  7. 2026-10-21 19:56 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-21 19:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  9. 2026-10-21 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 18% · 97th percentile
  10. 2026-10-20 21:04 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-20 21:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  12. 2026-10-20 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 18% · 97th percentile
  13. 2026-10-19 22:11 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-19 22:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  15. 2026-10-19 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 18% · 97th percentile
  16. 2026-10-18 23:18 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-18 23:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  18. 2026-10-18 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 18% · 97th percentile
  19. 2026-10-18 08:51 UTCEG score recompute
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  21. 2026-10-18 00:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  22. 2026-10-17 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 18% · 97th percentile
  23. 2026-10-17 01:30 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-17 01:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  25. 2026-10-16 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 18% · 97th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-16 02:36 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-16 02:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  3. 2026-10-15 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 18% · 97th percentile
  4. 2026-10-15 03:42 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-15 03:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  6. 2026-10-14 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 18% · 97th percentile
  7. 2026-10-14 04:49 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-14 04:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  9. 2026-10-13 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 18% · 97th percentile
  10. 2026-10-13 05:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  11. 2026-10-12 19:07 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-12 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 18% · 97th percentile
  13. 2026-10-12 07:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  14. 2026-10-12 03:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  15. 2026-10-11 23:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  16. 2026-10-11 19:43 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-11 19:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
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  19. 2026-10-11 15:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  20. 2026-10-11 13:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 18% · 97th percentile
  21. 2026-10-11 12:11 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-11 12:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  23. 2026-10-11 08:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  24. 2026-10-11 04:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  25. 2026-10-11 00:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
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  27. 2026-10-10 21:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  28. 2026-10-10 19:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 18% · 97th percentile
  29. 2026-10-10 17:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  30. 2026-10-10 13:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  31. 2026-10-10 09:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
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  35. 2026-10-09 22:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  36. 2026-10-09 20:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 18% · 97th percentile
  37. 2026-10-09 18:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  38. 2026-10-09 15:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
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  44. 2026-10-08 20:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  45. 2026-10-08 16:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 18% · 97th percentile
  46. 2026-10-08 16:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
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  51. 2026-10-08 01:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  52. 2026-10-07 23:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 18% · 97th percentile
  53. 2026-10-07 21:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  54. 2026-10-07 17:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
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  62. 2026-10-06 15:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  63. 2026-10-06 15:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 18% · 97th percentile
  64. 2026-10-06 11:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
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  70. 2026-10-05 17:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 18% · 97th percentile
  71. 2026-10-05 17:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qc3g-2wrf-8fcw · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
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Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2021-44207?
CVE-2021-44207 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on December 21, 2021. Acclaim USAHERDS through 7.4.0.1 uses hard-coded credentials.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2021-44207 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2021-44207 was published on December 21, 2021. 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 November 10, 2025; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2021-44207 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2021-44207 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on December 23, 2024, affecting Acclaim Systems USAHERDS. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2021-44207?
CVE-2021-44207 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.1 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2021-44207?
CVE-2021-44207 affects Acclaim Systems USAHERDS.
How do I remediate CVE-2021-44207?
No fix for CVE-2021-44207 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 CVE record's description, written by its CNA (MITRE Corporation), states the affected versions: "Acclaim USAHERDS through 7.4.0.1 uses hard-coded credentials." No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

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