CVE-2021-42342

Summary

CVECVE-2021-42342
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-10-14 06:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-10-20 17:35:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in GoAhead 4.x and 5.x before 5.1.5. In the file upload filter, user form variables can be passed to CGI scripts without being prefixed with the CGI prefix. This permits tunneling untrusted environment variables into vulnerable CGI scripts.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-434

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Embedthis Goahead All All All All
Application Embedthis Goahead All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Upload form vars bypass CGI prefixing. · Issue #305 · embedthis/goahead · GitHub MISC github.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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