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CVE-2021-21422

6.1 mediumEPSS 1.6%

Medium (6.1) in mongo-express project mongo-express. EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in mongo-express 1.0.0-alpha.4.

mongo-express is a web-based MongoDB admin interface, written with Node.js and express. 1: As mentioned in this issue: https://github.com/mongo-express/mongo-express/issues/577, when the content of a cell grows larger than supported size, clicking on a row will show full document unescaped, however this needs admin interaction on cell. 2: Data cells identified as media will be rendered as media, without being sanitized. Example of different renders: image, audio, video, etc. As an example of type 1 attack, an unauthorized user who only can send a large amount of data in a field of a document may use a payload with embedded javascript. This could send an export of a collection to the attacker without even an admin knowing. Other types of attacks such as dropping a database\collection are possible.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.1 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 75% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-79
Published
Modified
Record from
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Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-7p8h-86p5-wv3pnpmmongo-express<1.0.0-alpha.41.0.0-alpha.4

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