Acclaim Systems USAHERDS Use of Hard-Coded Credentials
What to do
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.
CISA deadline 2025-01-13 · passed 1 year 7 months ago · applies to US federal civilian agencies; used elsewhere as a reference SLA
What happened
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.
Who is affected
Acclaim Systems USAHERDS. Affected version ranges are listed in the vendor advisory and the NVD entry linked under Sources.
Weakness class: CWE-798.
Timeline
- Added to CISA KEVExploitation in the wild confirmed by CISA
- CISA remediation deadlinepassed 1 year 7 months ago
Sources
- NVD entry for CVE-2021-44207 nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44207
- CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
- acclaimsystems.com www.acclaimsystems.com/#contact
- tnatc.org www.tnatc.org/#contact
- nvd.nist.gov nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44207