CVSS 3.1
8.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-42561
High (8.8) in mitre caldera. EPSS 20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An issue was discovered in CALDERA 2.8.1. When activated, the Human plugin passes the unsanitized name parameter to a python "os.system" function. This allows attackers to use shell metacharacters (e.g., backticks "``" or dollar parenthesis "$()" ) in order to escape the current command and execute arbitrary shell commands.
Severity
- EPSS
- 20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 97% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-74
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- mitre:caldera
References
- https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2021-42561-Command%20Injection%20Via%20the%20Human%20Plugin-MITRE%20Caldera
- https://github.com/mitre/caldera/releases
- https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2021-42561-Command%20Injection%20Via%20the%20Human%20Plugin-MITRE%20Caldera
- https://github.com/mitre/caldera/releases