Published: 07/10/2021 Updated: 11/04/2024

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 445

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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 github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/issues/2601.] and github.com/nisdn/CVE-2021-40978/issues/1

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CVE-2021-40978 mkdocs built-in dev-server directory traversal exploitation Mkdocs 122 allows directory traversal through the built-in dev-server which responds on port 8000 There is below some examples of successfully exploited paths: Impact Using this tecnique it is possible to fetch files outside of the root directory, allowing anyone to read and download arbitrary files

CWE-22 https://github.com/nisdn/CVE-2021-40978 https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs https://github.com/nisdn/CVE-2021-40978/issues/1 https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/issues/2601 https://nvd.nist.gov https://github.com/nisdn/CVE-2021-40978

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