CVE-2021-38759

highpriority · attend · 54OT risk · highEPSS 0.157 · 97 %ileexploit · PoCEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

2 exploits · PoC

Likely / severe?

15.7% (97th) EPSS

CVSS 10 · high

Is it mine?

2 products

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-22

Raspberry Pi OS through 5.10 has the raspberry default password for the pi account. If not changed, attackers can gain administrator privileges.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

10.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 9.3–10

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 10

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.3criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
raspberrypi raspberry pi os lite≤ 5.10nvdUScpe:2.3:o:raspberrypi:raspberry_pi_os_lite:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

Which sources assert this record, and when.

published 2021-12-07modified 2026-06-17

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External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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