CVE-2021-42122 Denial of Service via Invalid Object Attribute in TopEase

What is CVE-2021-42122?

CVE-2021-42122 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Business-DNA Solutions GmbH TopEase, published on 30 Nov 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Insufficient Input Validation in Web Applications operating on Business-DNA Solutions GmbH’s TopEase® Platform Version <= 7.1.27 on an object’s attributes with numeric format allows an authenticated remote attacker with Object Modification privileges to insert an unexpected format, which makes the affected attribute non-editable.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-42122?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Businessdnasolutions Topease.

How do I fix CVE-2021-42122?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-42122 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2021-42122 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-42122 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Business-DNA Solutions GmbH TopEase

• CVE-2021-42115 Missing HTTPOnly flag on sensitive cookie in TopEase High 8.1
• CVE-2021-42118 Stored XSS in TopEase High 8.1
• CVE-2021-42544 Lack of Rate limiting in Authentication in TopEase High 7.5
• CVE-2021-42119 Stored XSS in Search Function in TopEase High 7.3
• CVE-2021-42123 Missing Upload Filter in TopEase High 7.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7pq6-99v4-7fp6.