Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-36800

HighPublic PoCRCE

Published: 04 August 2021

Published
04 August 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0032 55.6th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-36800 is a high-severity Code Injection (CWE-94) vulnerability in Akaunting Akaunting. Its CVSS base score is 8.7 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 44.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Akaunting version 2.1.12 and earlier suffers from a code injection issue in the Money.php component of the application. A POST sent to /{company_id}/sales/invoices/{invoice_id} with an items[0][price] that includes a PHP callable function is executed directly. This issue was fixed in…

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version 2.1.13 of the product.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

akaunting
akaunting
≤ 2.1.13

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.

addresses: CWE-94

Makes persistent code injection into loaded programs impossible when the executable image itself resides on hardware-protected read-only media.

addresses: CWE-94

Dynamically generated code can be produced and executed inside the isolated chamber, preventing host compromise from code-injection payloads.

addresses: CWE-94

Validates inputs used in dynamic code generation to block injected directives.

addresses: CWE-94

Directly prevents execution of attacker-supplied code written into data memory regions.

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