CVE detail

CVE-2021-23420 — CVE-2021-23420

Published 2021-08-11 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor codeception · Product codeception · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

7.7

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0271

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

85.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

This affects the package codeception/codeception from 4.0.0 and before 4.1.22, before 3.1.3. The RunProcess class can be leveraged as a gadget to run arbitrary commands on a system that is deserializing user input without validation.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

cvedb.io · NVD · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS · vendor advisories (CVE Program List v5). Informational only, no warranty — verify every remediation against the vendor advisory before acting on it. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD, CISA, FIRST.org or any vendor named. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.