CVE-2021-40119General(cisco / policy_suite)

LOWCVSS 9.8 · CRITICAL

Signal is active with 1 mentions in latest observed window

Immediate actions

  • Track advisory updates for patch or workaround availability

Recommended action window: Monitor and triage in normal cycle

NVD description

A vulnerability in the key-based SSH authentication mechanism of Cisco Policy Suite could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to log in to an affected system as the root user. This vulnerability is due to the re-use of static SSH keys across installations. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by extracting a key from a system under their control. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to log in to an affected system as the root user.

0.0/ 10 priority

Sources & remediation

Weakness type (CWE)
CWE-321CWE-798

Priority

LOW

Exploitation

NONE

PoC

NONE

Patch

NONE

Momentum

NONE

Are you affected?

If you run products in this scope, you should treat this CVE as relevant to your environment.

  • policy_suite

Threat summary

  • 1 mentions across 1 observed day

What's happening

  • General: 1 classified signal
  • 1 total mentions across 1 day

Affected systems

Vendors
Products
policy_suite

Deep dive

Activity timeline1 mentions / 1d
00111Mentions · 2026-04-22: 104-22
Signal classification1 categories
General
1100.0%
Full discourse1 post
  • Like coding@zouwuaoe
    General

    @VxoTay @changwei1006 and the societal marginalization of ex-convicts, choosing instead to view the world—and even notorious hardcoded flaws like CWE-798, CVE-2021-40119, CVE-2025-20309, CVE-2016-1909, and CVE-2010-2772.

    Post summary

    The post lists several CVE identifiers but provides no further technical, exploitative, or remediation details.

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