CVE-2021-3040

7.2 highEPSS 1.3%

High (7.2) in paloaltonetworks bridgecrew checkov. EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An unsafe deserialization vulnerability in Bridgecrew Checkov by Prisma Cloud allows arbitrary code execution when processing a malicious terraform file. This issue impacts Checkov 2.0 versions earlier than Checkov 2.0.139. Checkov 1.0 versions are not impacted.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.2 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 70% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-502
Published: 2021-06-10
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

paloaltonetworks:bridgecrew_checkov

References

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2021-3040
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2021-3040

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