CVE-2021-21372

mediumpriority · track · 36EPSS 0.036 · 89 %ileEUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
3.62% (89th) EPSS
CVSS 6.8 · medium
Is it mine?
4 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
3 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-24

Nimble is a package manager for the Nim programming language. In Nim release version before versions 1.2.10 and 1.4.4, Nimble doCmd is used in different places and can be leveraged to execute arbitrary commands. An attacker can craft a malicious entry in the packages.json package list to trigger code execution.

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cvss

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8.8
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.8–8.8

v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 6.4
v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9
v3.18.3highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU
v3.18.3highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · security-advisories@github.comexploitability 1.6 · impact 6
v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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affected products (4)

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also known as (2)

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published 2021-03-26modified 2026-06-17
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references (15)

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