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CVE-2021-42561
HIGH · CVSS 8.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-01-12T19:15:08.330 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:09:50.017

Summary

An issue was discovered in CALDERA 2.8.1. When activated, the Human plugin passes the unsanitized name parameter to a python "os.system" function. This allows attackers to use shell metacharacters (e.g., backticks "``" or dollar parenthesis "$()" ) in order to escape the current command and execute arbitrary shell commands.

Affected products

mitre — caldera

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References

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