CVE-2021-42087 Information disclosure in n/a
Medium 4.9
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-42087 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2021-42087 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Zammad Zammad, published on 7 Oct 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-42087 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Zammad Zammad. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-42087/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-42087/index.md)
An admin can discover the application secret via the API, potentially exposing sensitive configuration data.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2021-42087?
CVE-2021-42087 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Zammad Zammad, published on 7 Oct 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An issue was discovered in Zammad before 4.1.1. An admin can discover the application secret via the API.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-42087?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Zammad Zammad.
How do I fix CVE-2021-42087?
No fix has been published for CVE-2021-42087 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2021-42087 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-42087 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Zammad Zammad
Sources
Also known as GHSA-f497-m44x-hvvj.