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FKIE_CVE-2021-40146

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-09-11 11:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:06

Severity

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

A Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability was discovered in the Any23 YAMLExtractor.java file and is known to affect Any23 versions < 2.5. RCE vulnerabilities allow a malicious actor to execute any code of their choice on a remote machine over LAN, WAN, or internet. RCE belongs to the broader class of arbitrary code execution (ACE) vulnerabilities.

References

URL	Tags
security@apache.org	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/11/2	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@apache.org	https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7c521ed85c7ae1bad4fdf95b459f2aaa8a67eae338636b7b7ec35d86%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E	Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/11/2	Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7c521ed85c7ae1bad4fdf95b459f2aaa8a67eae338636b7b7ec35d86%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E	Mailing List, Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	apache	any23	*

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CVE-2021-40146 (GCVE-0-2021-40146)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-09-11 11:05 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:27

Title

A Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability exists in Apache Any23 YAMLExtractor.java

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Remote Code Execution (RCE)

Assigner

apache mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7c521ed85c7…	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/11/2	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Apache Software Foundation	Apache Any23	Affected: Apache Any23 , < 2.5 (custom)

Credits

The Apache Any23 Project Management Committee would like to thank Zhuxuan Wu for reporting the security vulnerability.

Show details on NVD website

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