8.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2021-42561

Published: 12/01/2022 Updated: 12/07/2022
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 8
CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 801
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

An issue exists in CALDERA 2.8.1. When activated, the Human plugin passes the unsanitized name parameter to a python "os.system" function. This allows malicious users to use shell metacharacters (e.g., backticks "``" or dollar parenthesis "$()" ) in order to escape the current command and execute arbitrary shell commands.

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