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Advisory details: vulnrichment / CVE-2021-36036
Advisory ID vulnrichment/CVE-2021-36036
Aliases
Summary Magento versions 2.4.2 (and earlier), 2.4.2-p1 (and earlier) and 2.3.7 (and earlier) are affected by an improper access control vulnerability within Magento's Media Gallery Upload workflow. By storing a specially crafted file in the website gallery, an authenticated attacker with administrative privilege can gain access to delete the .htaccess file. This could result in the attacker achieving remote code execution.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-284 Improper Access Control
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 7.2
ssvc Track
Reference id Reference type URL
apsb21-64.html Advisory https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/magento/apsb21-64.html
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at None
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

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changed

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low

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-02-26T21:52:37Z/ Found at None

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-02-26T21:52:37Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2021/36xxx/CVE-2021-36036.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2021-36036

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'total'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]