Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-40579

Medium

Published: 28 December 2021

Published
28 December 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0022 44.5th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-40579 is a medium-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) vulnerability in Online Enrollment Management System Project Online Enrollment Management System. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 44.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

https://www.sourcecodester.com/ Online Enrollment Management System in PHP and PayPal Free Source Code 1.0 is affected by: Incorrect Access Control. The impact is: gain privileges (remote).

CWE(s)
CWE-639

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

online enrollment management system project
online enrollment management system
1.0

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.

AC-24 Access Control Decisions
addresses: CWE-639

Per-request decision making makes it harder to bypass authorization using user-controlled keys without proper validation in the decision process.

AC-3 Access Enforcement
addresses: CWE-639

Consistent enforcement of approved authorizations makes bypassing via user-controlled keys ineffective.

References