CVE-2021-42342

published 2021-10-14

CVE-2021-42342: An 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…

Priority P2 67 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A H

An 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.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
embedthis	goahead	4.0.0 – 4.1.3	—
embedthis	goahead	>= 5.0.0 < 5.1.5	5.1.5

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.5 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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