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CVE-2021-29246 (GCVE-0-2021-29246)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-05 12:25 – Updated: 2024-08-03 22:02
VLAI
Summary
BTCPay Server through 1.0.7.0 suffers from directory traversal, which allows an attacker with admin privileges to achieve code execution. The attacker must craft a malicious plugin file with special characters to upload the file outside of the restricted directory.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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