CVE-2019-7942 Magento 2 Community Edition RCE

What is CVE-2019-7942?

CVE-2019-7942 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Magento Magento, published on 2 Aug 2019. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Magento 2.1 prior to 2.1.18, Magento 2.2 prior to 2.2.9, Magento 2.3 prior to 2.3.2. An authenticated user with admin privileges to create or edit a product can execute arbitrary code via malicious XML layout updates.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-7942?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including magento/community-edition. It affects 1 product.

Products include Magento Magento.

How do I fix CVE-2019-7942?

Upgrade magento/community-edition to a fixed version for your release line: 2.1.18, 2.2.9 or 2.3.2.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2019-7942 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-7942 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-vvf9-fxhv-4rgj.