# Use of default key for encryption

CVE record · `CVE-2021-40342`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2021-40342`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 7.1 High
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** Hitachi Energy
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-798](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/798.html)
- **Tags:** [Hard-coded credentials](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/hard-coded-credentials.md)
- **Technologies:** [Hitachi Energy FOXMAN-UN](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/hitachi-energy-foxman-un.md) · [Hitachi Energy UNEM](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/hitachi-energy-unem.md)
- **Published:** 5 Jan 2023
- **Updated:** 10 Apr 2025
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Hitachi Energy) at 5 Jan 2023, 21:27 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: Hitachi Energy. Product: FOXMAN-UN.
  - affected: `FOXMAN-UN R16A`
  - affected: `FOXMAN-UN R15B`
  - affected: `FOXMAN-UN R15A`
  - affected: `FOXMAN-UN R14B`
  - affected: `FOXMAN-UN R14A`
  - affected: `FOXMAN-UN R11B`
  - affected: `FOXMAN-UN R11A`
  - affected: `FOXMAN-UN R10C`
  - affected: `FOXMAN-UN R9C`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Hitachi Energy. Product: UNEM.
  - affected: `UNEM R16A`
  - affected: `UNEM R15B`
  - affected: `UNEM R15A`
  - affected: `UNEM R14B`
  - affected: `UNEM R14A`
  - affected: `UNEM R11B`
  - affected: `UNEM R11A`
  - affected: `UNEM R10C`
  - affected: `UNEM R9C`
  - Other versions: unaffected

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 7.1 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N`, from CNA (Hitachi Energy)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0030, the 23rd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 5 Jan 2023. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2021-40342](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-40342)
- [NVD: CVE-2021-40342](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40342)

### References from the CNA

- <https://search.abb.com/library/Download.aspx?DocumentID=8DBD000083&LanguageCode=en&DocumentPartId=&Action=Launch>
- <https://search.abb.com/library/Download.aspx?DocumentID=8DBD000084&LanguageCode=en&DocumentPartId=&Action=Launch>

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

## Check whether this affects you

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- Everything that needs attention now: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

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