Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-21016

CriticalRCE

Published: 11 February 2021

Published
11 February 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3 9.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0445 89.3th percentile
Risk Priority 21 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-21016 is a critical-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Magento Magento. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 10.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Magento versions 2.4.1 (and earlier), 2.4.0-p1 (and earlier) and 2.3.6 (and earlier) are vulnerable to OS command injection via the WebAPI. Successful exploitation could lead to remote code execution by an authenticated attacker. Access to the admin console is required…

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for successful exploitation.

CWE(s)
CWE-78

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

magento
magento
2.3.6, 2.4.0, 2.4.1 · ≤ 2.3.6 · ≤ 2.3.6

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-78

Platform-independent apps typically execute inside a managed runtime or sandbox that restricts direct OS command execution, reducing the ability to exploit OS command injection.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-78

Validates inputs to block special elements that would alter OS command execution.

References