CVE-2021-42134
Published: 11 October 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-42134 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Django-Unicorn Unicorn. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 47.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-0059
Vulnerability details
The Unicorn framework before 0.36.1 for Django allows XSS via a component. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2021-42053.
- 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.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.