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CVE-2021-42550 (GCVE-0-2021-42550)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-12-16 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 03:38
VLAI
Title
RCE from attacker with configuration edit priviledges through JNDI lookup
Summary
In logback version 1.2.7 and prior versions, an attacker with the required privileges to edit configurations files could craft a malicious configuration allowing to execute arbitrary code loaded from LDAP servers.
Severity
6.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
QOS.ch logback Affected: unspecified , < 1.2.9 (custom)
Affected: unspecified , < 1.3.0-alpha11 (custom)
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