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CVE-2021-36041
Magento Commerce Improper Input Validation Could Lead To Remote Code Execution
Critical9.1EPSS 2.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- adobe
Description
Magento Commerce versions 2.4.2 (and earlier), 2.4.2-p1 (and earlier) and 2.3.7 (and earlier) are affected by an improper input validation vulnerability. An attacker with admin privileges could upload a specially crafted file in the 'pub/media` directory could lead to remote code execution.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| adobeCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.4% · top 16% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.1.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected unspecified – ≤ 2.4.2
- affected unspecified – ≤ 2.4.2-p1
- affected unspecified – ≤ 2.3.7
- affected unspecified – ≤ None
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistmagento/community-editionGHSA-mx5m-j5xr-jg8c (opens in a new tab)
- Packagistmagento/project-community-editionGHSA-mx5m-j5xr-jg8c (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/magento/apsb21-64.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-mx5m-j5xr-jg8c (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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