The Manage Backgrounds functionality within NagVis versions prior to 1.9.29 is vulnerable to an authenticated path traversal vulnerability. Exploitation of this results in a malicious actor having the ability to arbitrarily delete files on the local system.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: SNPS

Published: 2021-10-14T14:56:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-11-03T19:25:49.435Z

Reserved: 2021-05-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-33178

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-10-14T15:15:09.040

Modified: 2025-11-03T20:15:47.607

Link: CVE-2021-33178

cve-icon Redhat

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