CVE-2021-36800
Published: 04 August 2021
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
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-23377
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
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.
Makes persistent code injection into loaded programs impossible when the executable image itself resides on hardware-protected read-only media.
Dynamically generated code can be produced and executed inside the isolated chamber, preventing host compromise from code-injection payloads.
Validates inputs used in dynamic code generation to block injected directives.
Directly prevents execution of attacker-supplied code written into data memory regions.