CVE-2021-27796

6.5 mediumEPSS 0.9%

Medium (6.5) in broadcom fabric operating system. EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in Brocade Fabric OS versions before Brocade Fabric OS v8.0.1b, v7.4.1d could allow an authenticated attacker within the restricted shell environment (rbash) as either the “user” or “factory” account, to read the contents of any file on the filesystem utilizing one of a few available binaries.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 59% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
Published: 2022-02-21
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

broadcom:fabric_operating_system

References

https://www.broadcom.com/support/fibre-channel-networking/security-advisories/brocade-security-advisory-2021-1721
https://www.broadcom.com/support/fibre-channel-networking/security-advisories/brocade-security-advisory-2021-1721

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