CVE-2021-46440

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-46440
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-05-03 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-07-12 17:42:00 UTC
DescriptionStoring passwords in a recoverable format in the DOCUMENTATION plugin component of Strapi before 3.6.9 and 4.x before 4.1.5 allows an attacker to access a victim's HTTP request, get the victim's cookie, perform a base64 decode on the victim's cookie, and obtain a cleartext password, leading to getting API documentation for further API attacks.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-522

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Strapi Strapi All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Change documentation auth cookie system by petersg83 · Pull Request #12246 · strapi/strapi · GitHub MISC github.com
Docker Hub MISC hub.docker.com
Packet Storm ≈ Temporarily Offline MISC packetstormsecurity.com
strapi.io MISC strapi.io
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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