CVE-2021-31822

7.8 highEPSS 0.2%

High (7.8) in octopus tentacle. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

When Octopus Tentacle is installed on a Linux operating system, the systemd service file permissions are misconfigured. This could lead to a local unprivileged user modifying the contents of the systemd service file to gain privileged access.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 11% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-276
Published: 2021-11-24
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

octopus:tentacle

References

https://advisories.octopus.com/adv/2021-11---Local-privilege-escalation-in-Octopus-Tentacle-%28CVE-2021-31822%29.2283732993.html
https://advisories.octopus.com/adv/2021-11---Local-privilege-escalation-in-Octopus-Tentacle-%28CVE-2021-31822%29.2283732993.html

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