CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-40978
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-10-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
The mkdocs 1.2.2 built-in dev-server allows directory traversal using the port 8000, enabling remote exploitation to obtain :sensitive information. NOTE: the vendor has disputed this as described in https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/issues/2601.] and https://github.com/nisdn/CVE-2021-40978/issues/1
Affected configurations
• mkdocs mkdocs 1.2.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/issues/2601 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/nisdn/CVE-2021-40978 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/nisdn/CVE-2021-40978/issues/1 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/issues/2601 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/nisdn/CVE-2021-40978 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/nisdn/CVE-2021-40978/issues/1 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory