CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-42342

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2021-10-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-10-14
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-434

Description

An issue was discovered in GoAhead 4.x and 5.x before 5.1.5. In the file upload filter, user form variables can be passed to CGI scripts without being prefixed with the CGI prefix. This permits tunneling untrusted environment variables into vulnerable CGI scripts.

Affected configurations

• embedthis goahead (>= 4.0.0 <= 4.1.3) • embedthis goahead (>= 5.0.0 < 5.1.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type weakness

References