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CVE-2021-22502

9.8, critical Known exploited

Micro Focus Operation Bridge Report (OBR) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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CVSS
9.8, critical critical CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
97% higher than 99.8% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
Confirmed in the wild
Published
8 Feb 20215 years ago

Known exploited

CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 3 Nov 2021. US federal agencies had to remediate by 17 Nov 2021, a deadline that has passed.

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Description

Remote Code execution vulnerability in Micro Focus Operation Bridge Reporter (OBR) product, affecting version 10.40. The vulnerability could be exploited to allow Remote Code Execution on the OBR server.

Details

Vendor
Micro Focus
Product
Operation Bridge Reporter.
Weakness
CWE-78 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Analyzed
Updated
17 Jun 2026
Assigner
security@opentext.com

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References 5

Exploit code 1

Advisories 3

Other references 1

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

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Every Micro Focus CVE we hold

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.