Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-45226

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 24 January 2022

Published
24 January 2022
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:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0031 54.2th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-45226 is a medium-severity Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output (CWE-116) vulnerability in Coins-Global Coins Construction Cloud. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 45.8% 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

An issue was discovered in COINS Construction Cloud 11.12. Due to improper validation of user-controlled HTTP headers, attackers can cause it to send password-reset e-mails pointing to arbitrary websites.

CWE(s)
CWE-116

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

coins-global
coins construction cloud
11.12

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.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-116

Validating that output matches expected content directly mitigates failures to properly encode or escape data for its destination context.

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