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CVE

GHSA-p9m8-27x8-rg87

Critical vulnerability found in cron-utils
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CVE

GHSA-p9m8-27x8-rg87

Critical vulnerability found in cron-utils

Impact

A Template Injection was identified in cron-utils enabling attackers to inject arbitrary Java EL expressions, leading to unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability. Versions up to 9.1.2 are susceptible to this vulnerability. Please note, that only projects using the @Cron annotation to validate untrusted Cron expressions are affected.

Patches

The issue was patched and a new version was released. Please upgrade to version 9.1.6.

Workarounds

There are no known workarounds up to this moment.

References

A description of the issue is provided in issue 461

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Open an issue in the cron-utils Github repository

Package Versions Affected

Package Version
patch Availability
com.cronutils:cron-utils 9.1.5
Available
Unavailable

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
10
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
0
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
9.8
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Related Resources

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References

https://github.com/jmrozanec/cron-utils/security/advisories/GHSA-p9m8-27x8-rg87, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41269, https://github.com/jmrozanec/cron-utils/issues/461, https://github.com/jmrozanec/cron-utils/commit/cfd2880f80e62ea74b92fa83474c2aabdb9899da, https://github.com/jmrozanec/cron-utils/commit/d6707503ec2f20947f79e38f861dba93b39df9da, https://github.com/jmrozanec/cron-utils

Severity

9.8

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
9.8
EPSS Probability
0.03799%
EPSS Percentile
0.87734%
Introduced Version
8.1.1,5.0.5
Fix Available
9.1.6

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