Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-36023

CriticalRCE

Published: 06 September 2023

Published
06 September 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.1628 95.0th percentile
Risk Priority 28 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-36023 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 5.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Magento Commerce versions 2.4.2 (and earlier), 2.4.2-p1 (and earlier) and 2.3.7 (and earlier) are affected by an XML Injection vulnerability in the Widgets Update Layout. An attacker with admin privileges can trigger a specially crafted script to achieve remote code…

more

execution.

CWE(s)
CWE-78

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

magento
magento
2.3.7, 2.4.2 · ≤ 2.3.7 · ≤ 2.3.7 · 2.4.0 — 2.4.2

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