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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-38648

Open Management Infrastructure Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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1 Nov 2026, 09:25 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-38648

core-osv · Original source

Published 15 Sept 2021, 12:15 UTC

Open Management Infrastructure Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

osv:CVE-2021-38648
Complete source record
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