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CVE-2021-3874
Path Traversal in bookstackapp/bookstack
Medium4.3EPSS 1.2%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- @huntrdev
Description
bookstack is vulnerable to Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Timeline
ID reserved
By @huntrdev
- 7 days later
· 7 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| @huntrdevCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 32% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
bookstackapp · bookstackapp/bookstack
- affected unspecified – < 21.08.5
References (2)
- https://huntr.dev/bounties/ac268a17-72b5-446f-a09a-9945ef58607a (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/bookstackapp/bookstack/commit/7224fbcc89f00f2b71644e36bb1b1d96addd1d5a (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 Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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