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CVE-2021-25681

Is CVE-2021-25681 real, exploitable, or a false positive? Here's the community verdict.

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Exploited in wild
Not listed
CISA KEV
Public exploit
Exploit-DB
Metasploit/EDB/PoC
Base severity
7.5 High
CVSS
Exploitation prob.
11%
FIRST EPSS
Weakness
Not classified
CWE

Moderate signals. Triage by your actual exposure and reachability.

public exploits

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A working exploit is publicly available from a maintained source. Treat this as higher urgency and verify your exposure.

baseline read

auto · not a community verdict

Low signal — verdict needed

Few public signals point to active risk. Whether a scanner hit here is a true or false positive depends on your version and config — community verdicts decide.

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Affected:Adtran

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

AdTran Personal Phone Manager 10.8.1 software is vulnerable to an issue that allows for exfiltration of data over DNS. This could allow for exposed AdTran Personal Phone Manager web servers to be used as DNS redirectors to tunnel arbitrary data over DNS. NOTE: The affected appliances NetVanta 7060 and NetVanta 7100 are considered End of Life and as such this issue will not be patched.

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    Field note · TruePositive EditorialCurated

    A working public exploit is published for this, so the barrier to attack is low. FIRST EPSS estimates about a 11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, which is high relative to most CVEs. It is reachable over the network with no authentication and no user interaction, which is the most dangerous profile. Patch this on priority and confirm the fix holds.

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